Quotes About Trying To Solve Problems

#1. I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

Eleanor Catton

#2. I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Nicole Kidman

#3. We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

Lester B. Pearson

#4. I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Hillary Clinton

#5. I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

Dave Barry

#6. I'll be involved more with Adobe overall in terms of our technology direction and the problems we are trying to solve, working across the different business units at Adobe.

Kevin Lynch

#7. Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

Simon Mainwaring

#8. The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Naguib Mahfouz

#9. Trying to solve complex social problems using the state, is like trying to create a beautiful painting with a machine gun: all you get is holes in the canvas, recoil aches, and a smell of cordite in the air.

Stefan Molyneux

#10. Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#11. I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve.

Edward Hirsch

#12. Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Rabindranath Tagore

#13. I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

Edmund Phelps

#14. Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.

Dan Brown

#15. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

#16. The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.

Robin Sacredfire

#17. At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.

Howard Schultz

#18. We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

Jonathan Ive

#20. Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

Sean Parker

#21. No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

Thomas Sowell

#22. The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night.

Anonymous

#23. Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Margaret Heffernan

#24. Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

#25. Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

Mao Zedong

#26. The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.

Michael Schur

#27. The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

Dean Acheson

#28. From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Justin Sane

#29. Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.

Eric Schmidt

#30. In the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

Emmet Fox

#31. I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

Mike Young

#32. 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

#33. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Philippe Kahn

#34. We are not trying to solve the world's problems ... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

Hayao Miyazaki

#35. Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

David Bohm

#36. There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

Sarah Polley

#37. Rather than trying to prevent all errors, we should assume, as is almost always the case, that our people's intentions are good and that they want to solve problems. Give them responsibility, let the mistakes happen, and let people fix them.

Ed Catmull

#38. Call me anal retentive, but I like nothing more than trying to solve life's problems with a good spreadsheet.

Stephanie Blackmoore

#39. Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Philip Emeagwali

#40. For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Mike Huckabee

#41. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation ... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Barbara Jordan

#42. Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

Kahlil Gibran