Quotes About Problem-solving

benchmark with your friend (or someone else) as you take steps toward resolving the problem.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

Find a need and fill it

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

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

The guy who shot him had quite a temper. Homicide had always made sense to him. He would say that there wasn't a problem in the world that couldn't be solved by shooting someone in the face. You just had to find the right person. Hell, you didn't even need to do that. Sometimes just shooting the person next to him was enough.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Well, so you're pleased with your day. And so am I. First, I solved two chess problems, one of them a very nice one — it opens with a pawn. I'll show you.

The blame game was a favorite pastime in my addicted family. Mistakes were immediately followed by emotional exchanges over who was at fault. I often was blamed, and I learned to blame others just as readily. In my adult life, the blame game has become an obsession. Sometimes I blame others and then am consumed with anger and bitterness. Or I take the blame and am swept up in a cycle of guilt and shame. Both responses divert energy from solving the problem and getting on with life.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

What is the point of magic if we can't use it to fix real problems?

Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

Service learning connects classroom studies to real-world issues, with hands-on activities and problem solving. Youth can study biology and ecology by testing the water in their own community; or learn about statistics, calculating the food supply and usage at the local food bank.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?