Abraham Pais Quotes

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Modernity is not a problem to be overcome but a challenge to be met.

Any study of a society shows that every solution creates a new situation which breeds its own new needs and problems, new demands.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble

Crisis creates opportunity.

We've all seen that every challenge we've gone through, we've learned something from. It's not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

For me, possibility, progress, growth, those things are very.. they feel very good. It doesn't usually come with negativity. I don't really mind sucking at something as long as I'm getting a little bit better at it along the way.

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

When there's change, there's opportunity.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.