“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”
“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”
“The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
“You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.”
“If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.”
“The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.”
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
“We have a problem. ''Congratulations.'' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations.''”
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”
“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
“There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.”
“The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!”
“We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.”
“Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.”
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”
“Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.”
“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
“The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
“Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.”
“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
“Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”
“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
“I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.”
“Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.”
“When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.”
“I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”