You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
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You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
If you've got a bloodstain on your T-shirt, maybe dirty laundry isn't your biggest problem.
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.
I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
Progress is the mother of problems.
A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.
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