Quotes About Solution

Big problem, small solution.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment.

relatively small changes—cooking with sweet-potato greens, greeting Bobby at the door—had a big impact on a big problem. There is a clear asymmetry between the scale of the problem and the scale of the solution. Big problem, small solution.

If Palmer wants to persuade the professors, he needs them to trip over the truth. And that starts with a focus on the problem, not the solution.

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

You know what worries me about the enemy? It's the violence. It is almost as if he thinks he can solve every problem this way.

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

AUTHOR'S NOTE Is the game really over? Maybe not. There is one more puzzle in the book that wasn't in the story. (Although a clue about how to find it was!) If you figure out the solution, let me know. Send an email to author@?Chris?Grabenstein.?com.

Every problem comes along with it's solution; the bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony. Cheer up!

Please understand that when I use this term – technical win – I'm referring to the responsibility to both convince the audience of the technical superiority of the solution and establish the business value of the investment.

Okay," Nina said. "What if you two drop the special acid and concentrate on opening the gate again, and I'll stand by with Lulu.

There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.

A Riddle There is one that has a head without an eye, And there's one that has an eye without a head. You may find the answer if you try; And when all is said, Half the answer hangs upon a thread.

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.

Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Will a billion dollars solve that sort of trouble? No, a billion dollars will only make the difficulty one billion dollars worse.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

American approach to policy is pragmatic; China's is conceptual. America has never had a powerful threatening neighbor; China has never been without a powerful adversary on its borders. Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems. Americans seek an outcome responding to immediate circumstances; Chinese concentrate on evolutionary change.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.