We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
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.
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