Quotes About Solutions

I don't think it's a coincidence that this crisis in paying attention has taken place at the same time as the worst crisis of democracy since the 1930s. People who can't focus will be more drawn to simplistic authoritarian solutions--and less likely to see clearly when they fail. A world full of attention-deprived citizens alternating between Twitter and Snapchat will be a world of cascading crises where we can't get a handle on any of them.

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions.

Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions.

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

We live in an extremely individualistic culture, where we are constantly pushed to see our problems as individual failings, and to seek out individual solutions. You're unable to focus? Overweight? Poor? Depressed? We are taught in this culture to think: That's my fault. I should have found a personal way to lift myself up and out of these environmental problems.

Unhappiness and depression are totally different things. There is nothing more infuriating to a depressed person than to be told to cheer up, or to be offered jolly little solutions as if they were merely having a bad week. It feels like being told to cheer yourself up by going out dancing after you've broken both your legs.

We could have looked instead at what does work: changing the environment in specific ways.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

Successful people are not without problems. They're simply people who've learned to solve their problems.

Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Better Things for Better Living . . . Through Chemistry.

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.

Creative intelligence was the means by which mental images and behaviors were intentionally combined to provide novel solutions for the problems that humans diagnosed and to construct new worlds for the opportunities humans envisioned.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no - more funding isn't the cure-all for what ails our schools.

Let's go fix problems that I have and let's do what I need to do to win championships.