Quotes About Solutions

We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.

We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Art must be inherently radical, but buildings are inherently conservative. Art must experiment to do its job. Most experiments fail. Art costs extra. How much extra are you willing to pay to live in a failed experiment? Art flouts convention. Convention became conventional because it works. Aspiring to art means aspiring to a building that almost certainly cannot work, because the old good solutions are thrown away. The roof has a dramatic new look, and it leaks dramatically.

I realized that what matters with any innovation is that it actually creates more value for people.

The world is changing. No matter what any of us is shopping for, we can find good products, good services, good solutions. We want to enjoy the experience of using those products, those services. This firm doesn't have a lock on brilliance. Your prospective clients can find that elsewhere. They want to enjoy the experience of implementing a brilliant solution in collegial and congenial partnership with teh people who brought it to them.

It is always a good idea to give people problems and let them come up with solutions.

Transformar las villas y a los villeros en un tema cultural es ocultar que se trata esencialmente de un problema económico que no tiene otra solución que no sea económica: en primer lugar encontrar solución a la crisis de vivienda y al desempleo crónico.

Literature makes us better thinkers. It moves us to see the multi-sidedness of situations and therefore expands the breadth of our visions, moving us towards dreams and solutions we might otherwise have imagined.

When people were convinced they had problems, the last thing they wanted to hear was a simple, straightforward solution.

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

Boeing is always looking at innovative ways to offer customers the highest level of service and support.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God's guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

Problems abound, but the manly and healthy view is that they exist to be bravely faced, and if possible solved.

When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.

together on solutions to fix them.

The state of journalism is a national security issue, if our people don't have a clear understanding what our problems are and the threats we face, they can't come together on solutions to fix them.

While no solutions seem obvious, there is general agreement throughout the industry that if local newspapers go away and some entity does not rise to do what we have come to expect of them—that is, keep an eye on local government—we will experience corruption at levels we have never seen.

There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.