Top 100 The Solution Quotes
#1. Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.
Edward Humes
#2. The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.
Herman Cain
#4. The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
Steven Sinofsky
#5. I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country's legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can't buy her, of course. She's got money of her own. But I'm pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he'll give me the green light.
Margaret Way
#6. When 'Being Rushed' is the problem ... Rushing is never the solution.
Bill Crawford
#7. The solution to losing weight is a whole foods, plant-based diet, coupled with a reasonable amount of exercise. It is a long-term lifestyle change, rather than a quick-fix fad, and it can provide sustained weight loss while minimizing risk of chronic disease.
T. Colin Campbell
#8. We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence ...
Shakira
#10. the solution to global warming is not to fix the world, it is to fix ourselves.
Naomi Klein
#11. I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.
Rene Daumal
#12. It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#13. The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.
Bertrand Russell
#14. Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right - and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.
Jenni Schaefer
#15. As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."
Dave Barry
#17. Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.
Jillian Michaels
#18. In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
Jay Leno
#19. As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
Robert Barany
#20. There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.
Jay Leno
#21. The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.
Phillip Lopate
#22. At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
Raymond Chandler
#23. Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.
Antoine Lavoisier
#24. Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?
Ray Davies
#25. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
Peter Kreeft
#26. Like realizing toward the end of a logic puzzle that you'd made a mistake early on, and that there's no way to reach the solution without starting over. Without erasing everything. Without throwing out all of your assumptions.
Rainbow Rowell
#27. Hope comes not in the solution to the problem but in focusing on Christ, who facilitates the change.
Timothy J. Keller
#28. I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.
Jim Breyer
#29. The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.
Neal Shusterman
#30. Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.
Pierce Brown
#31. It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.
Peter Shepherd
#32. The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#33. Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.
Herbert Simon
#34. Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
Lindsey Graham
#35. We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?
Matt Damon
#36. During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
Michael Vick
#37. All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
Alexander Pope
#38. For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.
Hannah Arendt
#39. The solution to pollution is dilution. It is very logical that if a chemical is bothering you, you should increase the flow of good air to dilute the level of the chemical.
Sherry Rogers
#40. CONSULTING: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Justin Sewell
#41. If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.
David Brooks
#42. Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
Brian Tracy
#43. Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
Mark Manson
#44. We don't need to actually solve the problems of the poor, the dalits, the downtrodden. Give them education and they will become self-confident. They will solve their own problems. So 'education' is actually the solution to all problems!
Rashmi Bansal
#45. No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.
Donald Phillip Verene
#46. When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious.
Albert Einstein
#47. In every conflict, some rhetoric and posturing, so we should take that aside. When facts is that everybody is exhausted and that no one believes that there is a military solution to this. The solution must be a political one.
Staffan De Mistura
#48. Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.
Tina Fey
#49. To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Pope John XXIII
#50. The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
Immanuel Kant
#51. We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#52. In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.
Louis J. Freeh
#53. Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!
Tony Robbins
#54. Accept reality, but focus on the solution. Take that issue, take that setback, take that problem, and turn it into something good. Go forward. And, if you are part of a team, that attitude will spread throughout.
Timothy Ferriss
#55. To change yourself, part of the solution might involve spending more time with the people who represent the change you seek. For
Scott Adams
#56. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.
Caroline Alexander
#57. Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution.
Ted Harts
#58. This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.
Josette Sheeran
#59. He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
Confucius
#60. -In discovery therapy you ask life's questions and uncover the problems so u can recover the solution
Ikechukwu Joseph
#61. It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#62. The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.
Henry Hazlitt
#63. Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.
Adam Phillips
#64. Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
Paulo Freire
#65. What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.
Boris Pasternak
#66. Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.
Frank Luntz
#68. The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
Albert Einstein
#69. Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination.
Massimo Vignelli
#70. The solution, she elaborates, is for couples to do novel and exciting things together (to release dopamine and get the romance rush),
Neil Strauss
#71. The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.
Moby
#72. Here's the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck - and some things have changed since the 19th Century.
Al Gore
#73. We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.
Costa-Gavras
#74. If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
Ted Danson
#75. A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.
Laurence M. Vance
#76. Never force something, Drew. A bolt, a pass, a game, whatever." His dark brown eyes held mine. "Force it and you'll lose. Patience and persistence is how you win in life. Take your time, look for the solution, and if it doesn't come to you, fall back, reassess, and try again.
Kristen Callihan
#77. You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love ... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Cassandra Clare
#78. We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.
Nick Bostrom
#79. Don't start working on the solution until you understand the problem.
Alex McAllister
#80. Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
John Olver
#81. Women are not the problem they're the solution
Sheryl WuDunn
#82. You should be willing to bang your head against a wall until you find the solution.
T.V. Mohandas Pai
#83. The secret of imagining is the greatest of all problems to the solution of which the mystic aspires. Supreme power, supreme wisdom, supreme delight lie in the far-off solution of this mystery.
Douglas Fawcett
#84. Jeanine Honicker. . . . coined a sentence . . . 'The solution to pollution by dilution when it comes to radiation if fallacious.
Helen Broinowski Caldicott
#85. Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.
Robert Love
#86. The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
John Peers
#87. Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#88. I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.
Douglas MacArthur
#89. Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
Wayne Dyer
#90. Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.
Don Henley
#91. This is the hard part. Knowing and admitting a problem are not the same as solving it. But executing a solution is also the fun part, because the solution save you and gets you moving again.
Twyla Tharp
#92. I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.
Andrea Jung
#93. If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
Steve Jobs
#94. But when Kaname asked: "Would you like to separate, then?" Misako answered: "Would you?" They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#95. For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.
Stuart Aken
#96. You don't want to die? Then seek the solution in science because there is no spiritual solution for this problem! Do not deceive yourself with spirituality! You means your conscious and to keep your conscious alive you must find some biological/physical solutions, not spiritual ones!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
Cay S. Horstmann
#98. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
M. Scott Peck
#99. The city is not the problem; the city is the solution,
Jaime Lerner
#100. Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.
Kinky Friedman
