Problem Solving Decision Quotes

#1. A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

John Dewey

#2. Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

#3. I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Herbert A. Simon

#4. Besides, pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final. She had issues with commitment

Thea Harrison

#5. Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Robert H. Schuller

#6. The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

Raoul Vaneigem

#7. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#8. When I'm rhyming it's all in my head ... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

Wyclef Jean

#9. He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?

Alan Lightman

#10. That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

Emily Dickinson

#11. Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#12. See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

J.P. Donleavy

#13. How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?

Yunus D. Saleh

#14. 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

#15. Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola.

David Quammen

#16. History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

P.D. James

#17. I want to tell her to stop, to leave, but parts of me are at war. I'm happy to have her close even if it hurts, even if it doesn't make any sense. But I can't seem to reach for her; I can't hold her like I've always wanted to.

Tahereh Mafi

#18. It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'

Gwyneth Paltrow

#19. If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Deborah J. Levine

#20. Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.

Auliq Ice

#21. Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.

Pearl Zhu

#22. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.

Pearl Zhu

#23. My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

Tod Machover

#24. Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Seymour Papert

#25. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.

Richard Diaz