Quotes About Solutions

Staying conscious means overcoming the auto-pilot mode and paying attention to everything that may relate to potential solutions, particularly those things that we take for granted or that we have come to accept as the way we do things around here. Always challenge current assumptions and beliefs in an effort to break through to a new level of thinking that may take you out of your comfort zone.

You are probably not the first one trying to overcome this obstacle or solve this problem. Find out what others did and how it worked for them.

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people's belief that they have failed.

The fictions were far more persuasive than the facts, and more persuasive than both was the longing to be caught up in a mass movement of solidarity, with the promise of emancipation at the end. My father's grievances were real and well founded. But his solutions were dreams.

For example: How do you keep a fish from smelling? Cook it as soon as you catch it. Freeze it. Wrap it in paper. Leave it in the water. Switch to chicken. Keep a cat around. Burn incense. Cut its nose off.

Learning is relatively easy when the link between cause and effect is clear. But complex systems often sever that connection: causes remote from effects, solutions detached from problems, and feedback delayed or misleading (Cyert and March, 1963; Senge, 1990).

Figuring out the solutions to puzzling mysteries seems to come so fast and so naturally for him, we just shake our heads in wonder and chalk it up as miraculous. We don't stop to consider the mental and emotional resources he has to marshal to pull that "miracle" off.

Philosophy is knowledge that one does not know; that is to say, it is knowledge of what one does not know, or awareness of the fundamental problems and, therewith, of the fundamental alternatives regarding their solution that are coeval with human thought.

For the most part, the leading spirits of the Progressive era were men who had been students here or abroad in the 1880s or '90s. They were the voices of the first American generation to be reared in college on the new collectivist theories; they were men trained to the conviction that an increase in the power of the state is the solution to most of mankind's problems.

Si no tiene sentido", dijo el Rey, "eso nos salva de un montón de problemas, sabes, porque no hace falta que le busquemos uno.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

....Because today people talk about their problems, not about solutions.

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

When the very source of creation is within you, all the solutions are within you. The problems are just created by you.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

Zna?ajni problemi s kojima se suo?avamo ne mogu biti riješeni na nivou razmišljanja koje je probleme kreiralo.

If the majority knew of the root of this evil, then the road to its cure would not be long.

To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.

Most problems could be diminished by the drinking of tea and the thinking through of things that could be done while tea was being drunk. And even if that did not solve problems, at least it could put them off for a little while, which we sometimes needed to do, we really did.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.