"One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem."
— Alexander Jodorowsky

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
— Philip K. Dick

"If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.
"
— Susan Del Gatto

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
— Malcolm Forbes

"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
— Abraham H. Maslow

"All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women."
— Santosh Kalwar

"There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck."
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)

" I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy the animals on the farm so much is that they don't think about their pain, or question it, they accept it and endure it, true stoics. I have never heard a donkey or cow whine (although I guess dogs do).
I told my friend this: pain, like joy, is a gift. It challenges us, tests, defines us, causes us to grow, empathize, and also, to appreciate its absence. If nothing else, it sharpens the experience of joy. The minute something happens to me that causes pain, I start wondering how I can respond to it, what I can learn from it, what it has taught me or shown me about myself. This doesn't make it hurt any less, but it puts it, for me, on a more manageable level. I don't know if there is a God, or if he causes me or anybody else to hurt, or if he could stop pain. I try to accept it and live beyond it. I think the animals have taught me that.
The Problem of Pain is that it exists, and is ubiquitous. The Challenge of Pain is how we respond to it. "
— Jon Katz

"PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1."
— Gerald M. Weinberg, Donald Gause (Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is)

""The only problem is time.""
— Seth MacFlarlane

"We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in."
— Atul Gawande (Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance)

"The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door."
— Martin Luther King Jr.