ON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

ON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law


We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly


We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- John W. Gardner


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison


Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which
is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson


Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard


The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost


You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London


If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow


Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Ken Hakuta


The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler


Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being selfevident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein


I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett


To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
- George Orwell


If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton


Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner


No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Sir Frederick G. Banting


It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes


If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in
certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon


There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski


In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
- Chuck Reid


Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen


The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay


You know you’ve achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito


Get the facts, or the facts will get you.
- Thomas Fuller


The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide


There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken


It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes


If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
- Henry J. Tillman