Quotes About Solution

Over the years, I have frequently counseled people who wanted better jobs to show more initiative—to take interest and aptitude tests, to study the industry, even the specific problems the organizations they are interested in are facing, and then to develop an effective presentation showing how their abilities can help solve the organization's problem. It's called "solution selling," and is a key paradigm in business success.

To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded.

for every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil , there is one hacking at the root ....

And their immediate request is very revealing of their basic paradigm. "How do you do it? Teach me the techniques." What they're really saying is, "Give me some quick fix advice or solution that will relieve the pain in my own situation.

effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They

hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.

For thirty days work only in your Circle of Influence. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

Desperate problems mandated desperate measures.

A problem that occurred too quickly for me to solve, so I brought it along.

The solution to your Jefferson cipher should be loading on my laptop as we speak. Our guys solved it." Had he heard right? The key? Found? After 175 years? Parrott was right—the captains would be thrilled. But there was still the matter of the foolishness that had just occurred. He could only hope he'd covered their tracks with no mistakes. If not, no cipher key would matter.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire said that no problem could withstand the assault of sustained thinking. And he was right.

Design Is a Wicked Problem Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber defined a wicked problem as one that could be clearly defined only by solving it, or by solving part of it (1973). This paradox implies, essentially, that you have to solve the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.

Whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention.

Here is the broader point: whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. Before spending all your time and resources, it's incredibly important to properly define the problem—or, better yet, redefine the problem.

Every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are. The fact that it remains a problem means it is too damned hard to be cracked in full.

When the solution to a given problem doesn't lay right before our eyes, it is easy to assume that no solution exists. But history has shown again and again that such assumptions are wrong.

democracy should be understood not as the answer to the question "Who should rule?" (namely, "The People"), but as a solution to the problem of how to dismiss bad leadership without bloodshed.

reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.

Violent crime is a solvable problem.

Human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

As an Israeli, I have come to understand: there is no way to love Israel and reject a two-state peace, no way to love Israel and reject Palestine.