#problem

There aren't any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That's how my dad does it anyway because apparently there's no age limit to running away, either. He wakes up one day, packs the car with everything we own, and we hit the road. Watch all the pretty colors go by until he finds a town harmless enough to hide in. But his problems always find us. Sometimes quicker than others. Sometimes one month and sometimes six. There's no rule when it comes to that, either. Not about how long it takes for the problems to catch up with us. Just that they will—that much is a given. And then it's time to run again to a new town, a new home, and a new school for me. But if there aren't any rules, I wonder why it feels the same every time. Feels like I leave behind a little bit of who I was in each house we've left empty. Scattering pieces of me in towns all over the place. A trail of crumbs dotting the map from everywhere we've left to everywhere we go. And they don't make any pictures when I connect dots. They are random like the stars littering the sky at night. ↗

— Brian James

#problems #rules #running-away #age

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#age

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confusion #disorientation #excess #excessive #eye

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. ↗

— George McGovern

#american #better #businesspeople #concerns #firsthand

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that. ↗

— Pat Travers

#ago #albums #along #battles #doing

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from ↗

— Rolf Potts

#running-away #work #art

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals but rather experiences. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#experiences #growth #problems #solutions #art

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#problems #art

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#challenges #motivational #overcoming-adversity #overcoming-challenges #overcoming-obstacles

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#applying #call #certain #data #his