Quotes About Solutions

Too frequently, in Congress or in nationwide politics at large, we are reactive. We look for easy, short-term solutions, and we try to put a Band-Aid on these massive, structural problems.

The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

So I think that good journalism helps you to zoom out, to focus on the structural forces that govern our lives. And I think that good journalism is also not only about the problems, but also about the solutions, and the people who are working on these solutions.

I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me.

It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.

Clio, the patron goddess of history, has a sense of humor; she teaches us that not all problems have solutions

I can't say this often enough: a baby who has been traumatized by abandonment often has more severe sleep problems at this age, and solutions take longer. With tough cases I bring in a blow-up bed and sleep in the child's room at least for the first night.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation." "Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community." "The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Jump in the river' was Tsunami's solution for everything. Bored? Aching bones? Dry scales? Brain overstuffed with the history of the war? 'Jump in the river!

If you can solve your problem, Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying?

At a basic level, a person with a personality disorder has a limited range of stereotyped "solutions" that he or she applies to most of the problems encountered in life.

As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may well be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change. Recent research suggests he is right: Few climate solutions of this magnitude lie in the hands of individuals or are as close as the dinner plate.

Democrats have a network of think tanks and sympathetic independent experts who look hard at evidence, try to devise solutions to real problems, and sometime affect actual legislative proposals. Republicans have nothing comparable; their tame "experts" are basically in the business of saying whatever their political masters want to hear.

It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly the world economy slumps there is a pain-free way out of it. Once the realization dawns that there is not, and that the pain will be severe, the question is posed that has not really been posed for twenty years: who should feel it?

Whether the challenge is political or personal, effective remedies differ from individual to individual. But solutions always involve altering perspective, replacing tunnel vision with an expanded view that lets in more light and more possibilities—the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Happiness is contagious and will always manage to find a solution.

The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.

If your rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.