Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
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.
The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.
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.
Every problem contains the seed of its own solution.
The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
If you realize that you’re the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don’t blame other people for your problems.
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
This problem, once solved, will be simple.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
There is a better way for everything. Find it.
Whatever the problem – be part of the solution.
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we’re made for, and what we’re responsible to give back to life.
Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you’re currently doing isn’t working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces – never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.