Define The Problem Quotes

#1. If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Steve Jobs

#2. If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

Jacob Lew

#3. If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Chip Kidd

#4. Active Listening provides parents with a way of moving in and offering to help the child define the problem for herself, and starting up the process of problem-solving within the child.

Thomas Gordon

#5. You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it.

Carroll Smith

#6. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

Eric Ludy

#7. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Richard P. Feynman

#8. Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

#9. Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#10. Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.

Carol S. Dweck

#11. I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Albert Einstein

#12. This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode.

Joss Whedon

#13. What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.

Christian De Duve

#14. It's not the problems in life that will define you, but how you solve those problem will define you.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor - the spirit of an army - is a problem for science.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it

Albert Einstein

#17. You don't fix the problem until you define it.

John W. Snow

#18. How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

John O. Brennan

#19. The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

Bob Barr

#20. Whenever a buddha appears, this is the problem: we cannot define him, we cannot put him into any category. You cannot label him. There is no way you can put him anywhere. Either he belongs everywhere or he belongs nowhere. He transcends all categories. Pigeonholes are not for him.

Osho

#21. I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Jacqueline Novogratz

#22. It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#23. Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography ... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.

Wole Soyinka

#25. Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can't define it or act upon it, forget it.

Timothy Ferriss

#26. The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

David Livermore

#27. Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

Robert M. Pirsig

#28. The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us.
Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

Jared Leto

#29. 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

#30. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Lee Strobel

#31. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

Shannon L. Alder