How To Solve Problems Quotes

#1. Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

Barack Obama

#2. Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.

Dean Koontz

#3. If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.

Wendy Mogel

#4. The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Michael Schur

#5. If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

Michael Bloomberg

#6. For a consultative site, you cannot talk only about your company and its products. You must talk about how your visitors can solve their problems and the problems of the stakeholders they report to.

Brian Massey

#7. 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

#8. My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#9. Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

Keith Rabois

#10. How often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what's not working - just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We'll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low - self-examination.

Brene Brown

#11. I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

Oscar Arias

#12. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Roger Lewin

#13. We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.

Rachel Fischer

#14. More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Alan Watts

#15. You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.

James Altucher

#16. Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

James Paul Gee

#17. My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

Dan Miller

#18. Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems

Ezra Klein

#19. Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

Andy Rooney

#20. Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

Bunker Roy

#21. When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey.

Tara Cottrell

#22. We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

Jonathan Ive

#23. A better measure of our success is to look at the people on our team and see how they are working together. Can they rally to solve key problems? If the answer is yes, you are managing well.

Ed Catmull

#24. You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

Jim Rohn

#25. expresses how the Creator solves the problems he needs to solve in order to bring creation out of chaos. Therefore, we have every reason to suppose that the succession of days was not meant to refer to a chronological succession but to a logical, thematic, and literary succession. In

Gregory A. Boyd

#26. There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how to solve it without making people really angry.

Margaret Cho

#27. A "No Excuses" mindset does recognize the reality of your situation, but its emphasis is not on how to validate the condition, instead, it should be on how to solve the challenge the situation describes.

Farshad Asl

#28. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Evan Williams

#29. If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

Rita Dove

#30. If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#31. How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets ... Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

Bill James

#32. The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how to
solve it.

Eraldo Banovac

#33. What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win ... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

Ben Carson

#34. As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

James Dyson

#35. Just Leo's luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn't figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.

Rick Riordan

#36. Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

Aimee Mann

#37. One of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11

Simone De Beauvoir

#38. Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Patty Murray

#39. How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#40. Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

Paul Lockhart

#41. All his thoughts were of how lucky he was to inhabit such a beautiful earth, how lucky he had been to solve his problems with music, and how pleasant it was to look forward to another night of sleep and another day tomorrow, and the fresh morning, and the light that returns with the day.

E.B. White

#42. We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

Nestor Kirchner

#43. It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.

Pat Conroy

#44. I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

Marjane Satrapi

#45. I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

Oliver Sacks

#46. I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Joshua Bell

#47. I'm really good with problems. I can solve a differential equation in my head. I chew through trig angles like candy. I know this, and it just makes it worse. Because I don't know how to solve this one.

Kekla Magoon

#48. For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Mike Huckabee

#49. If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

Fred Durst

#50. Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

Gabrielle Giffords

#51. The truly important problems are often the ones you're not even considering, because they appear to be impossible, or, um, actually difficult, or worst of all, not clear how to solve.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#52. What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

Olin Miller

#53. If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

Zach Braff

#54. Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

Chris Hadfield

#55. When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

Jonathan Zittrain

#56. If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Saul D. Alinsky

#57. The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

Beth Simone Noveck

#58. No one will help you when you are left with problems. so plan how to face the crucial situations alone. God doesn't give a problem which you cant solve.

Mohd Riyaz Ali

#59. MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

Reid Hoffman

#60. Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems

Nicky Gumbel

#61. I've seen a lot of government try to solve problems, and it didn't work. And my view is that the right course for America is to have someone who understands how the economy works who will passionately get America back on track.

Mitt Romney

#62. Find the problems - not to complain - but to solve.

Debasish Mridha

#63. Kids can't see us bombing, and then listen to us
talking about getting guns out of the schools.
How can we tell them to solve problems without violence,
if, in fact, we can't show an ability to solve problems
without violence?

Barbara Lee