#Solutions Quotes

“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.”

“When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.”

“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”

“By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.”

“You cannot solve a problem by condemning it”

“Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.”

“Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.”

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

“Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.”

“Abraham Maslow taught me, that when you're working with a patient, never let them spend more than a few moments on the problem, because what you think about is what expands, and if they're talking about the problem all the time, when they leave your session, the problem will expand. Get 'em to put their attention on what they intend to create, or on solutions.”

“If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.”

“One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.”

“The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.”

“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”

“Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.”

“If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.”

“Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.”

“Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

“Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.”

“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?”

“You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.”

“The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.”

“Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.”

“Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.”

“There's always a way - if you're committed.”

“Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.”

“The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions”

“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”

“The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.”

“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?”

“The how will show up after the commitment to the what.”

“In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.”

“Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.”

“Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.”

“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.”

“Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem”

“Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you're currently doing isn't working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.”

“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”

“A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.”

“Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush 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.”

“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”

“Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”

“Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.”

“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.”

“When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.”

“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.”

“Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.”