Top 64 Best Problem Solving Quotes
#1. Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.
Melody Beattie
#2. Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.
Richard Rogers
#3. You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
Anton Chekhov
#4. We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley
#5. Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
R.C. Sproul
#6. If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.
Julius Genachowski
#7. Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
Frank Herbert
#8. Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.
Eraldo Banovac
#9. Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.
Eraldo Banovac
#10. If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.
Tony Blair
#11. I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
Lisa Randall
#12. Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.
Stanley Greenspan
#13. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines
#14. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
Bruce Rauner
#15. Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Zedong
#16. If the application of problem solving methodologies does not guarantee the problem being solved, we have a problem to solve.
Ivan Fantin
#17. Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.
Ruby K. Payne
#18. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.
Ray Bottenberg
#19. Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.
Auliq Ice
#20. I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A. Clark
#21. Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.
Don Roff
#22. The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.
Randall E. Stross
#24. If design is a problem-solving discipline, then great design must start with a thorough understanding of the problem to be solved - which is best found in a great design brief.
Peter L. Phillips
#25. After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.
Robert L. Forward
#26. Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly.
Scott E. Page
#27. Solving the value-loading problem is a research challenge worthy of some of the next generation's best mathematical talent.
Nick Bostrom
#28. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#29. The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#30. The person who causes a problem may be the best person to solve it.
Steven Redhead
#31. I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.
Brian Cowen
#32. When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.
Auliq Ice
#33. Solving problems isn't so much about simplifying them as it is about properly and realistically reducing them to only what's relevant. And one of the best ways to reduce a problem to only what's relevant is to throw away most of your assumptions about it.
Christian Cantrell
#34. Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
Dilip Shanghvi
#35. The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.
Richard P. Feynman
#37. I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
Lawrence Lessig
#38. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
Derek Bok
#39. Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
#40. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.
Lundy Bancroft
#41. Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.
Henry Kissinger
#42. You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#43. The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple: 1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some great solutions, and create a Word document with that information in it. This can be a simple 30-page Word document, with one really good idea in it!
Mark Anastasi
#44. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
Deval Patrick
#45. All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.
William Zinsser
#46. Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Amartya Sen
#47. I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
Pierre Omidyar
#48. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.
Balan Gothandaraman
#49. Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
Zig Ziglar
#51. You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your "problem", whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.
Golda Poretsky
#52. All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Michael Crichton
#53. How in the fucking hell did you do that?"
Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said simply, as if it would explain everything.
April Adams
#54. I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem
Haruki Murakami
#55. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
#56. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon
#57. Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
#58. Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.
Tom Krause
#59. Money is merely a reward for solving problems.
Mike Murdock
#60. Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon only women also had meant that the particulars of problem solving were addressed in ways known to women and using women's methods.
Tracey Lindberg
#62. Success is a collection of problems solved.
I.M. Pei
#63. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.
Auliq Ice
#64. You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself.
Daniel Kahneman
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