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When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino
The basic problems facing the world today
are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
I can not believe that war
is the best solution.
No one won the last war,
and no one will win the next war.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying
as to make the thought of global war
include almost a sentence for suicide,
you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension...
would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
- Edward R. Murrow
A woman under stress is not immediately concerned
with finding solutions to her problems
but rather seeks relief
by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
Unlike presidential administrations,
problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is a wonderful advantage to a man,
in every pursuit or avocation,
to secure an adviser in a sensible woman.
In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact,
and a plain soundness of judgement,
which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man.
A woman, if she be really your friend,
will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing:
for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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