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Problem Solving Quotes

On the road to your best life there will be problems. Use these quotes to remind yourself of the importance of perseverance, possibilities, and perceptions.

"The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities." Unknown

"Problems that remain persistently insolvable should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way." Alan Watts

"How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positively." Norman Vincent Peale

"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." Edward de Bono

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year." John Foster Dulles

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” Michael Jordan

“I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.” Bob Parsons

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” G.K. Chesterton

“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."  Albert Einstein

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin.....But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." Alfred Souza

"We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path in the first place. The result is that we only have a dim, or even inaccurate, view of what's really important to us." Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.” Steve Allen

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." Frank A Clark

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

"Life's  challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." Bernice Johnson Reagon