A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

1. What am I worrying about?
2. What can I do about it?
"I used to try to answer those questions without writing them down. But I stopped that years ago. I
found that writing down both the questions and the answers clarifies my thinking.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry— or laugh.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.