Top 100 Solve A Problem Quotes
#1. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
Eric S. Raymond
#3. If you're having trouble with a math problem, plug the equation into WolframAlpha and it will solve it for you.
Keith Bradford
#4. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Jeff Bezos
#5. In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
Vint Cerf
#6. If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.
Anne Lamott
#7. Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
Twyla Tharp
#8. Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
Chip Kidd
#9. The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.
Jonah Lehrer
#10. The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Anton Chekhov
#11. Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.
Jim Babka
#12. In my experience, the last people you want trying to solve any problem, but especially those involving roads, are highway engineers. They operate from the principle that while no traffic problem can ever truly be solved, it can be spread over a much larger area.
Bill Bryson
#13. 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
#14. You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Daniel Everett
#16. You're not a real king," Juliette said, looking up at him. "And I'm not a princess in a tower. He's not a dragon. We're real people and a sword's not going to solve this problem.
Anonymous
#17. What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.
John Gresham Machen
#18. 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
#19. It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.
Larry Wall
#20. And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#22. I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.
Ronald Reagan
#23. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."
Chris Hardwick
#24. We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?
Merrie Spaeth
#25. If the application of problem solving methodologies does not guarantee the problem being solved, we have a problem to solve.
Ivan Fantin
#26. 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
#27. Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.
Van Jones
#28. There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
Dalai Lama
#29. I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
Rasmus Lerdorf
#30. SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
Elaine Greywalker
#31. Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.
Charlie Munger
#32. There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and adults who think hitting someone will solve a problem.
Anitra Lynn McLeod
#33. Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about
Al Hirschfeld
#34. Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.
Janet Morris
#35. It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.
Charlie Norwood
#36. It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Naveen Jain
#37. Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!
Patty Murray
#38. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm
#39. To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.
Debasish Mridha
#40. To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
Robert M. Hutchins
#41. every time you solve a problem you'd cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature's way of striking a balance? We humans don't have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
Charlie Jane Anders
#42. Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis..
Thomas Kuhn
#43. As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions.
Jeremy Walker
#44. 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
#45. When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#46. You never actually solve a problem. You just become a better person by understanding it in a better way. Then it ceases to be a problem for you.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#48. It can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.
Terence Tao
#49. We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
Barack Obama
#50. There should be a device which can detect when the person is getting angry and should not let that person speak till he/she calms down. This will solve so many problems.
Nauman Khan
#51. You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.
Wayne Dyer
#52. There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.
Malcolm Gladwell
#53. 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
#54. Global warming is part of natural cycle and there's nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
David Bellamy
#55. The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack
#56. You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.
Emmet Fox
#57. behind the wall." The next day, Hem and Haw returned with tools. Hem held the chisel, while Haw banged on the hammer until they made a hole in the wall of Cheese Station C. They peered inside but found no Cheese. They were disappointed but believed they could solve the problem. So they started
Spencer Johnson
#58. In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
Ken Follett
#59. you never want to solve a research problem with language. You
Timothy Ferriss
#60. The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
#61. I'm working on a new problem: Find the value for N such that N plus everything else in your life makes you feel all right. What would N equal? Solve for N.
Peter Cameron
#62. One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find ... this.
Joe Abercrombie
#63. Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
John Quincy Adams
#64. Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.
John L. Casti
#65. The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
Northrop Frye
#66. You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.
Lynn Grabhorn
#67. 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
#68. When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.
Nana Awere Damoah
#69. 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
#70. Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.
Ken Robinson
#71. If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
Brian Tracy
#72. What's the problem you solve? Solve it for one person. Create a system to do it without you. Duplicate.
T. Harv Eker
#73. Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.
Bjorn Lomborg
#75. I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#76. We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.
Marty Natalegawa
#77. We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
M. Scott Peck
#78. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.
L.R. Knost
#79. When we engage people in conversations about great work, we're not asking them to solve a problem for us. We're not selling something, nor are we asking for some kind of handout. What we're really doing is inviting them to participate with us in the shared enjoyment of making a difference.
David Sturt
#80. When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.
Siddharth Katragadda
#81. In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
Andy Stanley
#82. Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.
Amy Hill Hearth
#83. When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.
Lindsey Graham
#84. Eureka! Eureka!
Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.
Archimedes
#85. All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.
Jay Inslee
#86. Huh. Programming. Debugging. It wasn't Lincoln's favorite, but it beat archiving and compressing. At least it was a problem to solve. And it would only be for a few months, maybe less.
Rainbow Rowell
#87. It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.
Albert Einstein
#88. If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules
Paul Arden
#89. You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
Zig Ziglar
#90. We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
Linda Lingle
#91. Solve a real problem and the world is yours.
Aaron Patzer
#92. There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
Drew Houston
#93. A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.
Russell Baker
#94. So who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?
Janet Kagan
#95. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird
#96. We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And
Sherry Turkle
#97. If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
William E. Simon
#98. The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
Jacques Barzun
#99. I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.
Oliver Sacks
#100. Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.
Lisa A. Mininni
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