Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.

I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

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

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."

Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it.

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.