Quotes About Simple Solutions

#1. It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

Steven Erikson

#2. Simple minded people find simple solutions to their problems

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

Jeb Bush

#4. I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#5. Keep your mind clear to create simple solutions. Remove any distractions, like the TV, email prompts, unnecessary interruptions or telephone calls.

Lisa A. Mininni

#6. Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Amitai Etzioni

#7. I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

Martha Stewart

#8. If you can fix something that needs to be fixed, go ahead and fix it. But real leadership is most often needed where simple solutions have already been tried and have failed. When things are hard, sometimes the best thing you can do is to drown what's wrong in a sea of what's right.

Eric Greitens

#9. If people have simple solutions to the situation on the border, it's not a solution.

Sylvia Longmire

#10. Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

#11. Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.

Bobby Hoffman

#12. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Steve Jobs

#13. Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

Richard Schmid

#14. The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

Tony Blair

#15. There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

Marty Rubin

#16. Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.

Steve Herbert

#17. History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

Geoffrey Elton

#18. I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

Robertson Davies

#19. Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

John Bradshaw

#20. The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

Julian Casablancas

#21. You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

Jay Abraham

#22. The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

#23. Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

James Rozoff

#24. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

Criss Jami

#25. It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

Ivan Sutherland

#26. My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Kenneth Chenault

#27. Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

John Green

#28. Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#29. Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

#30. Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.

Linkin Park

#31. The world is complicated, so people seek complicated solutions. And there's nothing wrong with that because simple answers don't usually work. But sometimes the answers are simple and people still refuse to see them. - Edgar Roy

David Baldacci

#32. We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

Whitfield Diffie

#33. Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

David Suzuki

#34. The simple solution: do more, think less.

Marty Rubin

#35. If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Alice Rivlin

#36. Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

H.L. Mencken

#37. The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

Satish Kumar

#38. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Jason Fried

#39. Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex,
the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Bill Mollison

#40. I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

Frances Beinecke

#41. The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple: 1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some great solutions, and create a Word document with that information in it. This can be a simple 30-page Word document, with one really good idea in it!

Mark Anastasi