Top 100 Quotes About Problems Solving
#1. Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.
Ivan Chermayeff
#2. 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
#3. I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.
Lawrence Lessig
#4. A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
Ray Kurzweil
#5. We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
Roger Wilkins
#6. 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
#7. I try to tell a lot of stories to make my students aware that the world is a very cool place with many problems that need solving, and that they all can help solve them.
Sarah Parcak
#8. I should not like to leave an impression that all structural problems can be settled by X-ray analysis or that all crystal structures are easy to solve. I seem to have spent much more of my life not solving structures than solving them.
Dorothy Hodgkin
#9. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.
Steven D. Levitt
#10. If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them ... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".
Honeya
#11. All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.
Jared Diamond
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.
John Lennon
#15. Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.
Tom Krause
#16. Money is merely a reward for solving problems.
Mike Murdock
#17. I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
David J. Anderson
#19. Success is a collection of problems solved.
I.M. Pei
#20. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
Geoff Mulgan
#21. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Seth Godin
#22. Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.
Eraldo Banovac
#23. Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
Frank Herbert
#24. 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
#25. While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
Jason Chaffetz
#26. 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
#27. Intellectual capacity is related to the ability of solving problems in the
right manner.
Eraldo Banovac
#28. Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.
Richard Rogers
#29. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.
Richard Branson
#30. A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion.
Vivian Amis
#31. Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.
Colin Wilson
#32. You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.
Orrin Woodward
#33. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.
Paul Marsden
#34. There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann
#35. I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.
Anthony Heald
#36. As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.
Russell Brand
#37. Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Paul Lockhart
#38. Writing is not magic. It's a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.
Roy Peter Clark
#39. Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Nan Fairbrother
#40. I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
#41. If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.
Derek Sivers
#42. Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck
#43. does." Not enough of it to avoid dating a jackass like Jeff, but solving other people's problems was often easier than taking care of your own. I considered
John Connolly
#44. I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
Louise L. Hay
#45. If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.
Peace Pilgrim
#46. Solving problems - actually solving them, not just claiming you do - solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
Seth Godin
#47. Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
Garry Kasparov
#48. I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.
John Gurdon
#49. In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Georg Cantor
#51. It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.
Mitch McConnell
#52. A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.
Ralph Borsodi
#55. The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.
Steven Johnson
#56. Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.
Don Roff
#57. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#58. This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people.
Barbara Oakley
#59. 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
#60. In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.
Philip Kitcher
#62. Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.
Neil Gaiman
#63. Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
#64. The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.
Bill Farrel
#65. What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?
David Pogue
#66. Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.
Auliq Ice
#67. Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems.
Peace Pilgrim
#68. If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
Rene Descartes
#69. Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.
Ellen Galinsky
#70. First, opportunites are abundant. At any place and time you can look around and identify problems that need solving....regardless of the size of the problem, there are ususally creative ways to use the resources already at your disposal.
Tina Seelig
#71. Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
Bill Gates
#72. One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#73. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#75. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.
Peace Pilgrim
#76. With life problems, just remember that you're a man who solves his own problems and you will be able to handle it, whenever.
Auliq Ice
#77. Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. Look at your heart-flower and smile.
You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.
Sri Chinmoy
#79. Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.
Simone Weil
#80. Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
Dave Freudenthal
#81. Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
Abraham Flexner
#82. Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.
Nike Thaddeus
#84. People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
Gary Peters
#85. Market research can't tell you about solving problems that customers can't conceive are solvable. Giving the customer what he wants is less important than giving him what he doesn't yet know he wants.
Eric Schmidt
#86. Having new problems everyday without finding a solution is definitely a flag of permanent defeat, try other ways you will find it's solution.
Auliq Ice
#87. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
Edward Sapir
#88. Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.
Deepak Chopra
#89. The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.
Morris Gleitzman
#91. Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps
#94. When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the health care task force. You all know we failed because we couldn't break a Senate filibuster. Hillary immediately went to work on solving the problems the bill sought to address one by one.
William J. Clinton
#95. Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
Aaron Levie
#96. The road to overcoming your fears could lead you to unbearable places but sometimes such gives you an edge than nothing else could give.
Auliq Ice
#97. When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Stephen Covey
#98. What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller
#99. You can be the solution to the problems of the people
Sunday Adelaja
#100. I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew Wiles