Problem Solving Quotes

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

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

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Most of our problems are related to the mind, so we have to work to reduce our destructive emotions.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinkingthat got you into those problems in the first place.

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

There is a better way for everything. Find it.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

Out of complexity, find simplicity!

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

I think about things to put them in a place where I don't have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I'm just doing my homework early.

Sensible people have got to work together.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Sometimes a complicated question has a simple answer.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

If you can do something about a situation, why worry? And if you can't do something about a situation, why worry?