Quotes about problems

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Like running hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.

Often there's no need to tear off an arm to remove a splinter.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks can often cause problems.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.