Quotes About 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. Be a problem solver; be a peace builder.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.

Susan Cain

#5. I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

Lawrence Lessig

#6. 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

#7. Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

#8. Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Dalai Lama XIV

#9. Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#10. In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

John Thaw

#11. We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Roger Wilkins

#12. 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

#13. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.

Lundy Bancroft

#14. Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Henry Kissinger

#15. You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

Deval Patrick

#19. All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.

William Zinsser

#20. 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

#21. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.

Steven D. Levitt

#22. Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Amartya Sen

#23. I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

Marco Beltrami

#24. I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

Pierre Omidyar

#25. 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

#26. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.

Balan Gothandaraman

#27. 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

#28. Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Zig Ziglar

#29. Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Melody Beattie

#30. Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

Dilip Shanghvi

#31. 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

#32. All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Michael Crichton

#33. How in the fucking hell did you do that?"

Calyph shrugged. "I'm an Engineer," he said simply, as if it would explain everything.

April Adams

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

Vivian Vande Velde

#37. We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

John Lennon

#38. Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

#39. Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

Tom Krause

#40. Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Mike Murdock

#41. Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon only women also had meant that the particulars of problem solving were addressed in ways known to women and using women's methods.

Tracey Lindberg

#42. I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

David J. Anderson

#43. If you can't solve a problem, manage it.

Robert A. Schuller

#44. Success is a collection of problems solved.

I.M. Pei

#45. It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you're offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.

Auliq Ice

#46. You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself.

Daniel Kahneman

#47. People need each other for solving the problem of what is inside.

Matvei Yankelevich

#48. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.

Ray Bottenberg

#49. Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.

Ruby K. Payne

#50. 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

#51. If the application of problem solving methodologies does not guarantee the problem being solved, we have a problem to solve.

Ivan Fantin

#52. Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Mao Zedong

#53. A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Bruce Rauner

#54. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Steve Daines

#55. 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

#56. Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

Stanley Greenspan

#57. I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

Lisa Randall

#58. If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

Tony Blair

#59. Intellectual capacity is the key to solving any complex problem.

Eraldo Banovac

#60. Do you want to resolve a conflict successfully? Don't wait, start a conversation.

Eraldo Banovac

#61. Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

Frank Herbert

#62. 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

#63. Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

R.C. Sproul

#64. While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Jason Chaffetz

#65. 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

#66. Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#67. Intellectual capacity is related to the ability of solving problems in the
right manner.

Eraldo Banovac

#68. When people spoke to him, he heard less and less of what they were saying, and more and more of what they were not. He learned to decipher the meaning of certain silences, which is like solving a tough case without any clues, with only intuition.

Nicole Krauss

#69. Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Richard Rogers

#70. 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

#71. You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

Anton Chekhov

#72. Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

David J. C. MacKay

#73. Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Auliq Ice

#74. There's ALWAYS a way to fix something.

Steven Wolff

#75. Collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Gregory F. Treverton

#76. A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion.

Vivian Amis

#77. This is how we leave the world,
with the heart weeping,
and the hope that distance
brings the solving wonder
of one last clear view
before that long sleep
about the weather's changes

Mark Haddon

#78. 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

#79. Rather than wandering around in problem-solving mode all day, thinking mainly of what you want to fix about yourself or your life, you can pause for a few moments throughout the day to marvel at what's not broken. You

Kristin Neff

#80. You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling; you're solving problems.

Orrin Woodward

#81. in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Joseph A. Tainter

#82. What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Ayn Rand

#83. Solving a problem created by debt ... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

Olivier Sarkozy

#84. There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#85. You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.

Pearl Zhu

#86. Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

Sandra Cisneros

#87. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.

Paul Marsden

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

Sherry Turkle

#91. I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

Stellan Skarsgard

#92. As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

Russell Brand

#93. Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution

Anonymous

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

Paul Lockhart

#95. I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#96. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.

Kumail Nanjiani