Top 100 Quotes About Problem Solving
#1. Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
Zig Ziglar
#2. I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
Thomas Heatherwick
#3. 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
#4. If you are an office worker, exercise is not simply an antidote to stress or sedentary living. It is a training for the labour of work itself. It can help concentration, problem-solving skills and energy levels.
Damon Young
#5. Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.
Manuel De Landa
#6. 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
#7. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#8. I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative.The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated ... All art to me is about problem solving.
Steven Soderbergh
#9. I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#10. Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
Cedric Price
#11. I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.
Raul Ruiz
#12. I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.
S. Bear Bergman
#13. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.
William J Doherty
#14. The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
John Bolton
#15. Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.
Richard Branson
#16. Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#17. study revealed that sleep helps us to produce new and creative ideas and thinking. This means that problem solving improves with sleep quality.
M. Chris Wolf
#18. I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.
Herbert A. Simon
#20. There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.
Ty Burrell
#21. The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
Ray Bradbury
#22. Instead of trying to come up with a vision and make innovation happen themselves, a leader of innovation creates a place - a context, an environment - where people are willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires.
Linda A. Hill
#23. I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.
Carol W. Greider
#24. Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.
Assegid Habtewold
#25. Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people.
Barbara Oakley
#26. Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving ... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.
Drew Barrymore
#27. 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
#28. Steps for Problem-Solving Know your nomenclature. Identify the functional groups. Identify the other reagents. Identify the most reactive functional group(s). Identify the first step of the reaction. Consider stereoselectivity.
Kaplan
#29. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
David Perkins
#30. As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster Bujold
#31. Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
Russell L. Ackoff
#32. The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers
Lev S. Vygotsky
#33. The exercise of blending people's problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.
Pearl Zhu
#34. Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me.
Brandon Boyd
#35. I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
Laura Linney
#36. In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.
Linda Darling-Hammond
#37. Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.
Simon Sinek
#38. Politics is a kind of problem solving. No matter what organizational challenge you face, and how frustrating it might be, it's just another kind of problem to solve.
Scott Berkun
#39. 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
#40. With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics
we need more good ideas. We don't need more point-scoring
we need more problem-solving.
Barack Obama
#41. In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#42. People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.
Peter Salovey
#43. 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
#44. Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.
Allan Bloom
#45. There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
Paul Theroux
#46. Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.
Tom Chatfield
#47. Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.
Daniel Goleman
#48. The law of perceptual problem solving, or peekaboo, should now make more sense. It may have evolved to ensure that the search for visual solutions is inherently pleasurable rather than frustrating, so that you don't give up too easily.
V.S. Ramachandran
#49. A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that "sweat and tears" often fail to dissolve.
Hugh B. Brown
#50. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...
Victor Papanek
#51. The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
Tom Peters
#52. As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
Jesse James Garrett
#53. When you're problem solving with a team and somebody has an idea separate the idea from the person talking, because once in a while a jackass might come up with something useful.
Rachel Brady
#54. It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine and it solves problems by changing its ways. It
Matt Ridley
#55. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
#56. Truth is not always about pragmatic problem solving and making things "work," but about reconciling contradictions. Just because something might have some dire effects does not mean it is not true or even good. Just because something pleases people does not make it true either.
Richard Rohr
#57. I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.
Evgeny Morozov
#58. I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
Candice Olson
#59. The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.
M. Scott Peck
#60. It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
Edward De Bono
#61. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.
Anne Roe
#62. A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.
Pearl Zhu
#63. From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.
Luke Davies
#64. Most research is a synthesis of problem solving and creativity.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#65. and of course people started shooting, because that's what passes for problem-solving among humans. See, guys, this is why you can't have nice things. It
Erin Bow
#66. Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.
Beverly Cleary
#67. I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
Gale Norton
#68. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.
Elliot W. Eisner
#69. Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.
Richard Branson
#70. A high-mature digital organization is shifting from "pushing" stuff to the digital channel into "pulling" resources up for problem-solving.
Pearl Zhu
#71. You know," Naomi said, "if you're looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you're on wrong side.
James S.A. Corey
#72. All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.
Peter Block
#73. Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating.
V. St. Clair
#74. I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.
Rick Riordan
#75. Effective problem solving in design requires a balance of strategy and spontaneity, intelligence and creativity.
Maggie Macnab
#76. Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
Rick Warren
#77. We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#78. Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#80. I like problem solving. I like taking a crisis, breaking it into manageable pieces, and finding a solution. I don't like the minutiae. I don't like paperwork." "You
Ilona Andrews
#81. It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.
Robert Greenberg
#82. Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
Roseanne Barr
#83. Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.
Jeff Foxworthy
#84. A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude
Jesse Schell
#85. Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
Henry Cisneros
#86. Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
William Glasser
#87. Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
Chris Carter
#88. There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving.
Dave Eggers
#89. Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.
Gia Coppola
#90. Problem-solving with some people is like wiping your butt with a Hula-Hoop.
Carol A. Elliott
#91. A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.
Asa Don Brown
#92. Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#93. 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
#94. When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.
Jonathan Ive
#95. a rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.
Gary Shapiro
#96. 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
#97. Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.
Jan Brett
#98. Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.
Paul A. Kaufman
#99. Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
Barton Gellman
#100. New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience. TOM KELLEY, IDEO Why
Marc Goodman
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