Top 100 Difficult Problems Quotes
#1. All the most difficult problems become easy when we find the solutions.
Debasish Mridha
#2. 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.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#3. The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
Peter Medawar
#4. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Denis Waitley
#5. Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
Gever Tulley
#6. 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.
Zadie Smith
#7. It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Chris Patten
#8. The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
R. Buckminster Fuller
#9. The most difficult problems lead to the greatest insights; but often in hindsight!
Nalin Singh
#10. If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
Claire McCaskill
#11. Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way.
Pearl Zhu
#12. Behind the world's most difficult problems are people - groups of people who don't get along together. You can blame crime, war, drugs, greed, poverty, capitalism or the collective unconscious. The bottom line is that people cause our problems.
Zaid Hassan
#13. F 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.
Oliver Lodge
#14. Most difficult problems become very easy when we learn how to put things into perspective.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Solving large, difficult problems may earn you a reputation for skillful negotiation, but Sun Tzu asserts that this supposed achievement is actually a form of failure, and having true wisdom means preventing difficult problems from arising in the first place. Ironically,
Sun Tzu
#16. Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.
Harold Davenport
#17. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#18. Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
Maimonides
#19. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. 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.
Keith Rabois
#21. The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Alvar Aalto
#22. A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
Ben Horowitz
#23. Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley
#24. Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.
Marissa Meyer
#25. The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Lao-Tzu
#26. In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
Peter Agre
#27. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.
Michael A. Stackpole
#28. Death was hard, I got that, but it was only hard for those you left behind. Life was what was really difficult. Everyone here no longer had to suffer, be in pain, relive past mistakes. They were sleeping on, unaware of the problems around them. Death seemed like the easy way out. Life was harder.
Bailey Ardisone
#29. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read
#30. One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.
Meg Cabot
#31. The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
Kenneth Lay
#32. I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
Fidel Castro
#33. Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.
Gretchen Rubin
#34. God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
#35. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
M. Scott Peck
#36. So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#37. Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.
Natalie Dormer
#38. Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.
Jane Jacobs
#39. It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.
Liza Featherstone
#40. It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
E.W. Howe
#41. We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
Ernst Haas
#42. Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.
Tom Vilsack
#43. Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser
#44. The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution - another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!
Susan Barbara Apollon
#45. We cannot run away from our problems. We have to pray for strength to conquer,
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Paul Wigner
#47. The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
Eamon De Valera
#48. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#49. The truly important problems are often the ones you're not even considering, because they appear to be impossible, or, um, actually difficult, or worst of all, not clear how to solve.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#50. Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#51. Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.
Steve Herbert
#52. The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.
Colin Angle
#53. It is most difficult to convince a girl to share her problems with you. But it is also the fact that once she starts telling you her problems, she is most close to you.
Lovely Goyal
#54. There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#55. Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#56. The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
#57. If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don't face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.
Ray Dalio
#58. I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#59. Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?
Tom Sturridge
#60. Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.
Ronald Reagan
#61. The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters ... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#62. I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.
Nell Newman
#63. Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.
Lucas Papademos
#64. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy
John Holdren
#65. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Jim Lovell
#66. I was really impressed with Naomi [Watts]. She was a producer, and she was doing things that I wasn't really aware of. The way she was able to switch from handling problems to shoot a really difficult scene, I think is a real testament to her true ability.
Michael Pitt
#67. Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
Melinda Gates
#68. In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.
John Lanchester
#69. We were beset with all sorts of problems that were all political. But in the end it was the weather that brought us down. It's a very, very difficult thing to circumnavigate the globe. Otherwise someone else would have done it by now.
Mike Kendrick
#70. At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
Patrick Stewart
#71. Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.
Scott Hahn
#72. And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#73. I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
Len G. Murray
#74. One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?
Eanrin
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
#75. When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.
Thomas S. Monson
#76. We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
difficult task.
Harry S. Truman
#77. What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.
James Altucher
#79. I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.
Richard Diebenkorn
#80. It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
Curt Flood
#82. Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.
Leonard Darwin
#83. Do not stop pursuing your dreams in the midst of all the difficult situations you find yourself to be in. Instead, set your goals in faith.
Auliq Ice
#84. It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.
Megan Smith
#85. My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.
Orhan Pamuk
#86. We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Terry Brooks
#87. Becoming "new" in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions.
Billy Graham
#88. I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
David Sheff
#90. Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself: it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.
Peace Pilgrim
#91. No matter how difficult life is, never give up. Be happy and keep your head up with joy and smiles. One day your time will come.
Auliq Ice
#92. As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
Ben Horowitz
#93. Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.
Alfonso Cuaron
#94. I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.
Kirsten Lepore
#95. Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.
Ed Koch
#96. I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the end
Mark Haddon
#97. One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are desirable or your money is desirable. And it is so difficult to figure out, that one would have preferred not to have had money; at least life would have been simple.
Rajneesh
#98. Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
Marshall McLuhan
#99. Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#100. If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
Apollonius Of Tyana
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