There is a difference between problem spotting and problem solving.
- Susan Woodring

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we have a problem.
- James Lovell

If I'd know how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
- Andy Rooney

Solving problems is not so difficult. The trick is getting them to stay solved.

No problem can withstand the power of sustained creative thought.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is one's attitude about the problem.

It is better to look for what works before you focus on what's broken.
- C.W. Metcalf

When people become involved in the problem, they become significantly and sincerely committed to coming up with solutions to the problem.
- Stephen Covey

If you come to your boss early with a problem, you get a partner. If you come late with a disaster, you get a judge.
- Danny Cox

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.
- Kenneth Kaye

"DIS is DE" approach to problem-solving:
- "DE" fine the problem
- "DE" part from the norm
- "DE" lete the impractical
- "DE" velop the better
- "DE" termine the best
- "DE" liver the best

If you think something outside of yourself is the cause of your problem, you will look outside of yourself for the answer.

We teach collaborative problem-solving. In school that's called cheating.
- Edward Bales, Motorola University

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.
- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- G.K. Chesterton

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
- Grenville Kleiser

Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems ... they are not people without problems.

Anytime you thing that the problem is "out there", that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is "out there" then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

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

The best solution to a problem is the most simple one that creates no new problems.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Your solution to the problem changes the problem.

For every problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat & wrong.