Win The Life

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.— John Foster Dulles

 

In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.— Paul Harvey

 

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.— Alfred Armand Montapert

 

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment . . . ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.— Franklin D.Roosevelt

 

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment—undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location—should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said: 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.— Harlan Cleveland

 

I would rather be surrounded by smart people than have a huge budget. Smart people will get you there faster.— former McKinsey associate

 

Never try to solve all the problems at once — make them line up for you one-by-one.— Richard Sloma

 

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatver follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought.— Bernard Baruch

 

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.— Harvey G. Cox

 

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.— Peter Drucker

 

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed just to be undecided about them.— Laurence J. Peter

 

Again and again, the impossible decision is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.— Dr. Robert Schuller

 

Life is a crisis - so what!— Malcolm Bradbury

 

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.— Viktor Frankl

 

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.— Edwin Louis Cole

 

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.—Henri Kaiser

 

Do it, fix it, try it, is our favorite axiom. Karl Weick adds that chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. . . . ; The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in the excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment.— Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

 

Uncertainty can lead to paralysis. And if you become indecisive you're dead..— Jim Citrin

 

I never decide whether it's time to retire during training camp.— Bob Christian

 

[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!— Brand Blanchard

 

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.— Albert Einstein

 

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.— George Vaillant

 

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience.... When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.— Brian Adams

 

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.— Peter Drucker

 

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.— Warren Bennis

 

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'— Marcus Aurelius

 

I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.'— George Marshall

 

Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.— Andy Stanley

 

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.— Edward R. Murrow

 

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.— Theodore Rubin

 

Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve. - Victor Galaz

 

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

 

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. (Illusions, 1977) - Richard David Bach

 

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture, like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia and sometimes culminates in death. - Quentin Crisp

 

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. - Blaise Pascal

 

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. - Robert Julius Oppenheimer

 

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! - Pablo Picasso

 

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.-Angelina Jolie

 

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.-Carl Jung

 

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.-Abraham Maslow

 

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.-H. L. Mencken

 

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.-George Bernard Shaw

 

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.-George Bernard Shaw

 

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.-Harry S. Truman

 

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.-Milton Friedman

 

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.-Robert Anthony

 

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.-Robert Anthony

 

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.-Joseph Stalin

 

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.-Soren Kierkegaard

 

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.-Milton Friedman

 

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.-Milton Friedman

 

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.-Jack Welch

 

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.-Johnny Depp

 

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.-Johnny Depp

 

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.-Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.-Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?-Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.-Jerry Garcia

 

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.-Jerry Garcia

 

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.-Jerry Garcia

 

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.-Jerry Garcia

 

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.-Dave Barry

 

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.-Dave Barry

 

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.-Dave Barry

 

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.-Dave Barry

 

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.-W. Edwards Deming

 

Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.-Temple Grandin

 

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.-W. Clement Stone

 

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.-W. Clement Stone

 

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'-W. Clement Stone

 

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'-Jim Carrey

 

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.-Richard Bach

 

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.-Marcus Garvey

 

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.-Bertrand Russell

 

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.-Bertrand Russell

 

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.-Bertrand Russell

 

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.-Steve Martin

 

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.-Michelle Obama

 

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.-Erich Fromm

 

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.-Erich Fromm

 

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.-Erich Fromm

 

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.-R. Lee Ermey

 

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.-R. Lee Ermey

 

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.-Jerry Seinfeld

 

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.-Glenn Beck

 

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.-Glenn Beck

 

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?-Glenn Beck

 

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.-Mao Tse-Tung

 

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.-Courtney Love

 

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.-Maynard James Keenan

 

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.-Jon Stewart

 

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.-Orson Welles

 

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.-Golda Meir

 

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.-John Maynard Keynes

 

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.-Quentin Crisp

 

Money is a never-ending problem.-Alvin Ailey

 

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.-Jack Nicklaus

 

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, Is there a meaning to music? My answer would be, Yes. And Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be, No.-Aaron Copland

 

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.-Gilbert Parker

 

A problem is your chance to do your best.-Duke Ellington

 

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.-Condoleezza Rice

 

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.-Condoleezza Rice

 

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.-Allen West

 

There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.-Gordon Gould

 

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.-Kirstie Alley

 

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.-Kirstie Alley

 

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.-Helen Hayes

 

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.-Alain Prost

 

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.-Alain Prost

 

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.-Malcolm Forbes

 

Don't fight the problem, decide it.-George C. Marshall

 

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.-Salma Hayek

 

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.-Ralph Nader

 

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.-Stanley Kubrick

 

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.-Brigham Young