Problem Persistence Quotes

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

I'm not going to stop having problems.

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!

The worst possible thing ... was to lie dead in the water with any problem. Solve it, solve it quickly ... If you solved it wrong, it would come back and slap you in the face, and then you could solve it right.

There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

At what point do we accept the fact that throwing money at the problem isn't the solution?

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem