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Theodore Rubin ???If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. [Some] choose to work as best they can with important problems rather than restricting themselves to doing only that which they can do elegantly with the tech
Richard Buckminster Fuller many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Scott Adams Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
M. I. Abramowitz Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.
Albert Einstein Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
Robert Louis Stevenson The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Albert Einstein It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Thomas Mann War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Richard Milhous Nixon The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Albert Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Anthony D'Angelo When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Harry S Truman Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Steven Wright Smoking cures weight problems... Eventually...
Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
Carol Burnett I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Roger Lewin Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Rene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
James Magary Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
Laurence J. Peter Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
D. J. Hicks Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
Albert Einstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Willie Nelson There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not.
Dwight D Eisenhower Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Vince Lombardi People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Albert Einstein The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
Freeman John Dyson It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Henry II Ford What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
John F. Kennedy The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
M Scott Peck 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.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Can't the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they've caused
Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Michael Masukawa Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out.
Richard Buckminster Fuller many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Lewis Grizzard The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
William Arthur Ward It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
Billy Joel As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay
John Keats The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Warren Bennis Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.
Theodore Rubin ???If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. [Some] choose to work as best they can with important problems rather than restricting themselves to doing only that which they can do elegantly with the tech
N. W. Dougherty The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Thomas John Watson, Sr. All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Abraham Lincoln Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems
Paul Tournier Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Tom Naylor The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
P. T. Forsyth You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
Gay Talese The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
Bill Maher During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.
"You don't solve problems, you survive problems." Aquinas
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
The cause of problems are solutions!
I tried to drown my problems but they can swim!
Stop thinking, and end your problems.
If it has tits or tires, there will be problems.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
Smoking cure weight problems...eventually.
Having Windows problems? Dial 1-800-3-IBM-OS2 for fast relief!
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week.
Complex problems have simple, wrong answers.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.
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.
here are very few personal problems that can't be solved by the suitable application of high explosives.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
The foolish man lies awake all night
Thinking of his many problems;
When the morning comes he is worn out
And his trouble is just as it was.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.
People don???t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and p
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explainin
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaini
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
"Oh, the problems of a producer!" -Jiminy Cricket, Disneyland TV show
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
"How do soldiers killing each other solve the worlds problems?" Biafra
"The problems of our entire society are of a sexual nature." -- Jacoby
It???s more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia???s problems in 15 minutes
"I love talking to people with problems." - Geneva
"My brother has emotional problems. It runs in the family."
"We will deal with no problems before its time" - typical politician.
"Psychic convention cancelled due to unforeseen problems...."
"You have problems." Margo Lane to Lamont Cranston
Spelling problems? use "error-correcting" modems!
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

 

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