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We are dissatisfied because we are idealists. We
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
The problem contains the solution.
A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
Absence of failure does not constitute success.
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.
Being right does not always bring satisfaction,
Normally, we're never satisfied.
Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't.
There is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.
Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements.
This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.
There is no solution because there is no problem.
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.
A difficulty for every solution.
Satisfaction is transient - an interim state of mind.
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Aristotle wisely reminds us, "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied." When
The successful cannot be unhappy
it was a contradiction in terms.
You need to fail in order to find the right solution.
My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
There is no solution, for there is no problem.
The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.
If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.
How can you attain satisfaction if you have more excuses than action?
Satisfaction is the inner state of a man; it cannot be achieved externally.
You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.
Every solution has a problem.
In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether.
Meeting specifications is not enough.
Complaint is poverty.
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.
When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.
Existence is an imperfection.
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
To measure success with material things is failure!
I've felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.
Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!
a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.
You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.
Your problem is that you don't know how to be happy with unhappiness.
Contentment is not a natural propensity of man.
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
This sentence is not true
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.
It is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.
Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
..the greatest unhappiness a person can feel in life is unmet expectations.
If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
This is the antonym of excellent.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Excuses are incompatible with excellence. The
Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted
The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.
Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
You can be satisfied in life because you have and are fulfilling your important mission in life
Dissatisfaction is a bottomless pit.
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...
Failure or success is not a mistake but a result
Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound
and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
There's no solution, because there's no problem
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.
Futility is in the eye of the beholder.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs
Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.
Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.
A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.
The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
Failure is not an option. It's a requirement.
How Does a Solution Become a Problem?
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress