Bill Bradley Quotes

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

When life is going to present you with tons of problems - really hard ones, some less hard, some debilitating - it's what you do about them that matters.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

Always take a good look at your problems as they are going to be with you for a long time.

The kind of problems we're facing now, no government can fix.

Americans tend to believe that every problem has some technical solution.

It’s not very profitable to sit and think nowadays. So many problems, and they seem all to have such twists to them – nothing is straightforward.

I have been an editor at Commentary for a number of years and the thing that we all agree about is that we are much better at identifying problems than at solving them.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

Difficulties are always there--they will always be there, and I am glad that there are difficulties, for they excite the imagination and the intellect, and you can then find out the means by which you can solve the problem

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

There's always going to be adversity.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

Sometimes, people have issues, and you just wish sometimes that it could be good.

Pitchers made an adjustment to me. It's up to me to come up with an answer.

Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.

A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This is what it is - how does it get better, or how does it affect you, or how can you influence it in a positive way?'

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.