There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John Von Neumann
To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things. — Lee Iacocca
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all. — Earl Nightingale
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. — Laurence J. Peter
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. — Erno Rubik
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. — Hugh Miller
Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over. — Marie Osmond
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
Short Tough Problems Quotes
Problems are the price you pay for progress. — Branch Rickey
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya
Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them. — Cardi B
Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come. — Woody Allen
Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly. — Meg Whitman
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. — Bertrand Russell
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. — Henry J. Kaiser
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. — Epictetus
Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.
Tough Challenges Quotes
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo. — Wilma Mankiller
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it. — Maajid Nawaz
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. — Donald Trump
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to undrstand. We listen to reply.
I love being put into situations which are competitive and tough and challenging. — Ellyse Perry
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges. — Jackie Gleason
I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board. — Viswanathan Anand
Tough Questions Quotes
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. — Gwen Ifill
I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. — Helen Thomas
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Who is in your life asking you the tough questions? — Jeff Henderson
To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions — Jeb Bush
I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows. — Daniel H. Pink
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
The tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but […] once you do that, the rest is really easy. — Elon Musk
That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. — Daniel Okrent
have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States. — Josh Earnest
If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions. — Buddy Wakefield
Difficult Problems Quotes
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — James A. Lovell
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — Jim Lovell
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. — John Von Neumann
Be selective in your battles, don't make every problem a war.
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education. — Victor Papanek
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to. — Julia Alvarez
When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Tough Things Quotes
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. — Bill Belichick
Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things — Brock Lesnar
Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. — Nouman Ali Khan
What's important is that you stay true to yourself. Because when you enter the real world, the most valuable thing you can bring is all your you-ness. The world doesn't need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers - the world needs more you. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise. — Bo Burnham
Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn
The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough. — Joe Strummer
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams — The Rev
What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher. — Soichiro Honda
Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — Bobby Jones
Respect the game. It's easy to do when you're smaller, tough to do when you get bigger. And even tougher when you become number one. — Patrick Bet-David
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. — Christopher Meloni
You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — Mike Krzyzewski
If it can be solved, theres no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.
It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game. — Maria Sharapova
Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes. — Rickson Gracie
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot. — Anatoly Karpov
Tough Situations Quotes
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva
When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me' — Miley Cyrus
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger. — Jada Pinkett Smith
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. — John McEnroe
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation. — Christine Lagarde
One thing you must never lose is courage. If you believe in the goal you are striving for, you will be courageous. There are many difficult times ahead, but you must keep your sense of humor, work through the tough situations, and enjoy yourself! — Shigesato Itoi
Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ! — T. B. Joshua
Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations. — Arnold Palmer
Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset. — Joe Teti
Tough Quotes
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith — Yasmin Mogahed
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho
The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend. — Alex Jones
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough. — Zaha Hadid
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep. — Helio Gracie
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless. — Jeff Cooper
Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light. — Rabindranath Tagore
Complex Problems Quotes
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony of Padua
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. — Steve Jobs
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living. — Joseph Pilates
Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer. — Kim Joon
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution. — Anton Chekhov
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. — Alice Childress
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi
The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea. — Marty Neumeier
Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. — K. Patricia Cross
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. — John Foster Dulles
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. — Alfred Armand Montapert
Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. — Chris Hadfield
Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child. — Shane Filan
My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn. — Joyce Meyer
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved. — Bill Gates
We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.' — W. Clement Stone
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books. — Bill Maher
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. — Jack Welch
Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough. — Charlie Munger
Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do. — Tim Brown
And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career. — Teresita Fernandez
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple. — Unknown Author
Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so. — George Matthew Adams
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children. — Jon Kyl
We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is - it is a huge problem. — Donald Trump
Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone. — Winona Ryder
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. — John Foster Dulles
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. — Reince Priebus
Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams. — Jan Hellriegel
We have a problem. Congratulations. But it's a tough problem. Then double congratulations. — W. Clement Stone
Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler. — Albert Einstein
People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough. — Robert Thurman
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. — Carl Sagan
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today. — Alexi Giannoulias
JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. — Jamie Dimon
I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport. — Tyson Gay
My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person. — Greg Rusedski
I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them. — Rick Schroder
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. — Jackie Robinson
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You're not just imagining things. It's tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times. Girls now are also faced with different problems. I've been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned - the hard way - that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they - men - had the ideas. — Bjork
The Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily. And I've had numerous conversations with the leader of the Philippines and - and he's got a big problem. He's got a massive drug problem. He's been very, very tough on that drug problem, but he has a massive drug problem. — Donald Trump
Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it's tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we're no longer a great power. Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago. — Billy Bragg
9/11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems. — John Dean
It doesn't mean we're not going to be tough across the world, it doesn't mean that we're not going to always put America first in everything we do. But we have big problems in this world. And I don't think we can solve these big problems by making believe that people don't exist. They exist. We have to talk to people. — Reince Priebus
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can. — Henry David Thoreau
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done. — Benjamin Carson
The problem is we need toughness. Honestly, I think Jeb[Bush] is a very nice person. He's a very nice person. But we need tough people. We need toughness. We need intelligence and we need tough. — Donald Trump
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