Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. — Harold Davenport Copy Share Image
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems. — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way… — Aza Raskin Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things… — Donald Michael Kraig Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There's a joke people tell in the Soviet Union: Mitterrand, Bush and Gorbachev have a meeting with God. Mitterrand says, 'My country… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns. — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist:… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986,… — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
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