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

  • 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?

    Light   Years   Long  
  • ..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.

    Fall   Order   Apples  
  • 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.

  • Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

    Dream   Science   Vision  
    William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”
  • 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.

    Love   Dog   Children  
    Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
  • 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.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black
  • If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

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

  • 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.

    Fear   Moving   Feelings  
    Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.33, Routledge
  • The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

  • It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  • 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.

    Wise   Tired   Ducks  
  • One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.

  • 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   Mules   Sticks  
  • Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

    "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)
  • 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.

    Wall   Pain   Sadness  
    FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014
  • The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

    Simple   Problem   Affair  
  • Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

    Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen, at Second Conference on Chemical Weapons Treaty Review, www.government.nl. April 07, 2008.
  • The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

    Voltaire (2016). “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…”, p.5643, e-artnow
  • 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   Dark   Past  
  • 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.

  • I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

    Running   Real   Believe  
    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.201, Yale University Press
  • 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.

    Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.3, Harmony
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

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

  • Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

    Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr
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