A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

1. What am I worrying about?
2. What can I do about it?
"I used to try to answer those questions without writing them down. But I stopped that years ago. I
found that writing down both the questions and the answers clarifies my thinking.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry— or laugh.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

At 7 a.m. all my voices start talking inside my head, and when it reaches a certain pitch I jump out and trap them before they're gone. Or I shower and then the voices talk. You solve problems not by thinking directly of them but allowing them to ferment in their own time.

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

1. When trying to get the facts, I pretend that I am collecting this information not for myself, but for some other person. This helps me to take a cold, impartial view of the evidence. This helps me eliminate my emotions.
2. While trying to collect the facts about the problem that is worrying me, I sometimes pretend that I am a lawyer preparing to argue the other side of the issue. In other words, I try to get all the facts against myself-all the facts that are damaging to my wishes, all the facts I don't like to face.