Quotes About Solutions

Every problem comes with a baggage of solutions.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Children do cooperate (most of the time, at least) when they're involved in finding solutions to problems; they will understand "no" when they are developmentally ready; and they listen when parents listen to them and talk in ways that invite listening. Problems are solved more easily when parents use kind and firm guidance until children are old enough to be involved in the process of creating limits and focusing on solutions.

you will work together to find respectful, helpful solutions to the challenges you face, from spilled apple juice to bedtime woes.

It is a criterion of love. In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold onto that most difficult one of all, love.

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today." (Interview, Sierra Magazine , May/June 2005)

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

Because you cannot speak to unknown clients, there are only two solutions: either find your users and do a usability study, or be use case oriented. Work with use cases—that is, visions of the API user's action—and then optimize specifically for these. Getting responses from users via a usability study is good and can verify that your expectations about the use cases are correct.

We don't throw more people at problems, we chop problems down until they can be carried across the finish line by teams of three

Workaholics miss the point, too. They try to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at them. They try to make up for intellectual laziness with brute force. This results in inelegant solutions.

Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort.

What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it's that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

When confronted with problems, most companies try to make small changes or Band-Aid fixes and hope things get better or that the problem goes away. This approach doesn't work and ensures that they'll waste vast amounts of time and energy.

When companies haphazardly throw money at what they perceive their problems, challenges, and opportunities to be, the real answers that could solve the real problems or allow them to embrace radical change and take advantage of the real opportunities are seldom found.

Memory (...) should be treated like a pest; while old solutions retained in memory provide stability and some degree of predictability in an uncertain world, that stability - often called tradition or the way things have always been - can also stifle flexibility. The world remains uncertain no matter what we do to protect ourselves from it; we must always be prepared to leap outside of retained solutions to new enactments.

If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn't mean that you use your mind. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse.

Like the alchemists, they were content to advocate highly imaginative solutions whose relation to existing facts was one of flat negation.