As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

My life is a struggle.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.