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“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Helping Problem Science Used Difficult Understanding Simple Mathematics Method Seeking Characteristics Physicist Difficult Problems Seeking Help

Author:John von Neumann

“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”

Problem Difficult Keys Ultimate Novelists Recognizing Knots Omen Fluidity Good Omens Difficult Problems

Author:Zadie Smith

“I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.”

Ifs Believe Heart Soul Country Problem Today Difficult Deals Numbers Poverty Crime Broken My Heart Structure Heart And Soul Difficult Problems

Author:Sam Brownback

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”

“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.”

Ifs Way Trying Helping Problem Asks Difficult Failing Creating Solutions Solve Faster Try Again Difficult Problems

Author:Aza Raskin

“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.”

Should Littles Persons Two Problem Young Difficult Accepting Youth Offers Solutions Harm Superficial Maxims Difficult Problems Credo

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”

People Knows Problem Difficult Company Know How Impact Solve Difficult Problems

Author:Keith Rabois

“The system [of thought] doesn't stay with the difficult problem that produces unpleasant feelings. It's conditioned somehow to move as fast as it can toward more pleasant feelings, without actually facing the thing that's making the unpleasant feeling.”

Mind Feelings Problem Moving Fear Difficult Produce Pleasant Difficult Problems

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.”

Problem Difficult Imagine Understood Imagine That Difficult Problems

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.”

People Knows Problem Young Difficult Impossible Mathematics Ignorant Difficult Problems

Author:Freeman Dyson

“..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.”

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Author:Oliver Lodge

“You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?”

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Author:Eberhard Arnold

“Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.”

Ifs Problem Difficult Difficult Problems

Author:Ed Koch

“One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.”

States Problem Difficult United United States Taxes Fairs Bills Rate Solve Decades Spots Offering Tax System Difficult Problems

Author:Donald T. Regan

“Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.”

Problem Life Is Difficult Chance Growing Achieve Picks Shining Hiding Advancing Pick Yourself Up Difficult Problems Living In Fear

Author:Ralph Marston

“The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.”

Thinking Problem Difficult Oneself Historian Guessing Anthropologists Difficult Problems Personal Knowledge

Author:W. H. Auden

“Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Steps Progress Legs Decades Seconds Robots Difficult Problems Slow Progress

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.”

I Can States Problem Difficult Natural Fields Disease Insects Difficult Problems

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.”

Problem Given Difficult Chance Resilience Persistence Difficult Problems

Author:Gever Tulley

“If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.”

Ifs Writing Persons Problem Difficult Solve Narrators Difficult Problems

Author:Truman Capote

“Instead of confronting its real and difficult problems and grappling honestly with a dark past, Hungary embraced a reactionary government and a self-pitying image of itself as the victimized nation, and went looking for scapegoats in the Roma, Jews, and, most recently, Syrian migrants.”

Real Self Problem Government Past Nations Difficult Dark Jew Honestly Reactionaries Confronting Migrants Scapegoat Hungary Grappling Difficult Problems

Author:Susan Faludi

“Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.”

People World Looks Stills Country States Problem Difficult United United States Regions Difficult Problems American Leadership

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”

Ifs Inspirational Problem Motivational Challenges Positive Thinking Solutions Positivity Seeds Problem Solving Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem Difficult Problems Solved Problems Problems And Challenges

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

Source: One to one: understanding personal relationships

“Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!”

“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.”

Source: Sweet Thursday

“Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this—through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication—we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”

“Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.”

Done Problem Bigs Action Left Difficult Wise Tired Hardest Insightful Ducks Difficult Problems

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.”

Thinking Years Hard Problem Faces Difficult Lines Difficult Problems

Author:Marissa Meyer

“No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.”

Source: Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges

“I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.”

Ifs Knows Stories Problem Difficult Come Up Difficult Problems

Book:Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”

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Author:Confucius

“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”

“All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.”

Mind Has Beens Country Problem Political Politics Difficult Rich Strange Citizens Average Doctrine Proven Difficult Problems

Author:Mark Twain

“Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.”

Mean Problem Difficult Courage Relationship Periods Solutions Seeking Focused Moving Forward Stay Focused Stressful Difficult Problems

Author:Denis Waitley

“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.”

Ifs Problem Bigs Time Difficult Break Handle Procrastination Procrastinating Difficult Problems

Author:Robert Collier

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”

Author:Frank A. Clark

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.”

“Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a human being presents a more difficult problem. The rich might wish to experience feelings of affection, but it is almost impossible to chip away the enamel of their narcissism. They take up all the space in all the mirrors in the house. Their children, who represent the most present and therefore the most annoying claim on their attention, usually receive the brunt of their irritation.”

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.”

Mind Problem Given Difficult Situation Sticks Complexes Intuitive Stubbornness Mules Hypothetical Difficult Problems

Author:Albert Einstein

“Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.”

Source: To Have Or To Be?

“The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.”

Problem Difficult Simple Affair Problems In Life Difficult Problems

Author:Laozi

“He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.”

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Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.”

Mean Art Problem Science Difficult Solutions Research Difficult Problems Devising Devising Means

Author:Peter Medawar

“Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.”

Problem Moving Difficult Chance Mistake Picks Shining Pick Yourself Up Time To Move On Difficult Problems Mistakes Happen Time To Shine

Author:Ralph Marston

“I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part - unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps difficult, problem children, for whose welfare you may work, with a purpose, to the end of your days.”