A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.


Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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EDWARD ABBEY
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
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STEVE MARABOLI
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
RONALD REAGAN
Having problems is not a problem. Not trying to solve them is a problem.
LALIT BHOJWANI
Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. SCOTT PECK
It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl...
EUGENE WIGNER
If life cannot solve our problems,then lets commit them to death.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
You won’t solve your problems by drowning others in them.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
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JOHN RAMPTON
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. SCOTT PECK
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GENESIS QUIHUIS
You cannot solve your problems with the same thinking that created them.
JOHN P. SCHILLER
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
JAMES DYSON
President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our c...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
California needs to solve its economic problems, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the engine that will s...
WARREN BUFFET
I want to solve problems.
ANDY GOLD
What was once thought can never be unthought
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
Wer einen großen Skandal verheimlichen will, inszeniert am besten einen kleinen.
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one
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Don't Expect Superheroes to Solve your Problems.. Become a Superhero to Solve your Problems.. Have y...
DINACE KUMAR C
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
HENRY FORD
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to s...
DAVID BOHM
If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not pe...
MACKENZIE DAVIS
if education doesn't solve a problem, then it is a problem; If the educated do not solve problems, t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
There were no problems to solve,
CHRIS DIXON
Sometimes at night in my bed I solve the worlds greatest problems all in my mind... By morning my me...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON
This is not a perfect world. If we have problems, we have to find ways to solve them without stoppin...
ZHANG YUANYUAN
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
PETER T. FORSYTH
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
P.T. FORSYTH
God sometimes allows problems in the life of a church, to lead them to speak with representatives of...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Dnt worry abt the problems bcoz problems are here to solve. Find out the way to solve each and evry ...
AMIT PRATAP SINGH CHOUHAN
Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOV
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.
SINEAD O'CONNOR
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The only problems money can solve are money problems
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
ADAM JOHNSON
In business, you try to solve problems.
BOB CORKER
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political;...
TOM ROBBINS
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve partic...
SETH SHOSTAK
It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.
CLIFF SHAW
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Hard work eventually solves all problems, but to solve problems quickly you need intelligence.
AMIT KALANTRI
To solve complex problems, you need to think simple.
LALIT BHOJWANI
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of...
MARY SCHMICH
Such a coalition will not solve our economic problems.
ANTON BOERNER
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their...
SCOTT ADAMS
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and...
IVAN CHERMAYEFF
That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.
GARY PAULSEN
The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
JANE HARMAN
We want to be a district's partner and not just a vendor. We can better help them solve their proble...
GARY KEEP
To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everyt...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
Life is like Facebook. People will like and coments your problems, but no one will solve them becaus...
LUCY HALE
Problems are solved by talking. They took the initiative; now they should solve the problem and we'l...
ALI RODRIGUEZ
Everyone agreed [that] even though we all have problems in our lives, we don't solve them by trying ...
KAREN MORGAN
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
It doesn't solve any problems for us.
CARLO PIANA
IPP is going to solve a lot of problems with cross-platform printing.
MICHAEL SWEET
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MELITA FERNANDES
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!
AVIJEET DAS
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someb...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs invo...
STEVE BLANK
Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
In my experience, cutting back is the crucial act that allows the vitality, precision and emotional ...
PAMELA ERENS
Solve your problems with love, not razor blades.
DAGEN WHITT
I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE
Life is a test. Without problems to solve, it wouldn’t be much of a test.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
ERIK NUPPONEN
There aren't many big ideas about how to solve the problems,
ALICE WATERS
There is no painless way to solve Social Security's solvency problems.
RON GEBHARDTSBAUER
Metrics allow this retailer to engage in meaningful conversations around the results and helps them ...
CHRIS HEIM
We've made a lot of progress, but we also know there may be further problems, and we're going to wor...
GLEN WEINER
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't ...
C. K. WILLIAMS
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
And for them, asking for help is a sign of weakness. When in fact, they've asked for help many times...
CHARLES NEMEROFF
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really con...
RICHARD FEYNMAN
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTES
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTES
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENé DESCARTES
Revenge doesn't solve any problems, it just makes more
ITACH UCHIHA
We've been able to solve a lot of these problems by going back to the literature.
JAMES SALGE
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist...
EUGENE WIGNER
In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises:...
ERALDO BANOVAC
Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
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Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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