Be The Solution Not The Problem Quotes

#1. Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Dennis Weaver

#2. Be the solution, not the problem.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Always be the solution - not the problem.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Sometimes, the only thing that stands in your way from moving on completely is one question. Sadly, it is the one question God asked another person to answer for you. Be the solution, not the problem.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Ray Bradbury

#6. Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

Esther Hicks

#8. 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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. [Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution.

Bill Readings

#10. The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.

Moby

#11. In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Eduardo Paes

#12. Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.

Allen Newell

#13. When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

J. Allen Hynek

#14. CONSULTING: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

Justin Sewell

#15. During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Michael Vick

#16. A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Hilbert

#17. Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Alice Hoffman

#18. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Stephen R. Covey

#19. Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

Sidney Sheldon

#20. If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!

George M. Gilbert

#21. The serious problems in life ... are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

C. G. Jung

#22. Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.

Slavoj Zizek

#23. On Philosophy:
It's the search for meaning that has value, not the meaning itself.
All problems are solvable if a problem is a question that can't be shown not to have a solution.
To those with burning passion, follow it; to those of lessor passion, fill a need.

Kalifer Deil

#24. I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

George Packer

#25. Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Noah Hawley

#26. Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

Mark Epstein

#27. Do not wait for the government to provide solutions to the people when you can be their answer

Sunday Adelaja

#28. I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

Alan Greenspan

#29. Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved

Fela Durotoye

#30. The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Leo Tolstoy

#31. We are responsible for the problem and we must be held responsible for the solution. It will indeed be a sad indictment on our species if rhinos and elephants are no more. And that day will come much sooner than we think if we do not take action.

Brian Connell

#32. People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Carly Fiorina

#33. I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

Yoko Ono

#34. The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#35. Capitalism is just a front lined big word people use to hide their ignorance in their sophisticated clothing. People have a full spectrum of words to snub their part of the problem to console that they are not the cause of a callous situation, so they cannot be a part of the solution.

M. T. Panchal

#36. When the real problem is not well identified, only by chance a solution may be created.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#37. I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Jesse Ventura

#38. If you're not part of the solution ... then you're part of the problem.
Don't be part of the problem!

Timothy Pina

#39. The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

Raymond Geuss

#40. We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.

Judith Krug