You cannot solve a problem ...

You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.