"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
Pablo Picasso
75 Top-Notch Quotes about Difficulties
"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers, after the problems are solved."
Gay Talese
(born February 7, 1932) is an American author. He wrote for The New York Times in the early 1960s and helped to define literary journalism or "new nonfiction reportage", also known as New Journalism.
"If the tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail."
Abraham Harold Maslow
(April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was a professor of psychology at Brandeis University who founded humanistic psychology and created Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter
(September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
Alan Saporta
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"If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
Jewish saying
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
(May 31, 1884 – August 22, 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome
"Difficulties are things that show what men are."
Epictetus
(AD 55–AD 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, he taught, is a way of life and not just a theoretical discipline.
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
(December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor,
animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world.
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
"Man needs difficulties, they are necessary for health."
Carl Gustav Jung
(26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.
