Quotes About Problem-solving

I don't think it's right that I'm part of the problem. I can't be part of the solution if I'm part of the problem

Life is about solving for x

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

If we pray to God, He will give us wisdom to solve any problem.

People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

When banana's don't work, try a cookie.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

There is no problem that greater consciousness and compassion, enjoined with positive resolve of will cannot solve.

The annoyance you ignore today only gets worse tomorrow. Solve it now.

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Tony Wagner recently said, "There's no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know." And,

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

Look for opportunities to brainstorm new answers to old problems. You have lived with them for so long that you may have unwittingly given up any hope of solving them. Break through this block, not by finding the single right answer but by finding 10 or 20 new answers—the crazier, the better.

You also need to give people a role in dealing effectively with the transition process itself. The easiest way to do this is to be sure that everyone has some role on one of the planning task forces, climate survey groups, problem-solving circles, or transition monitoring teams.

Giving people a part brings their firsthand knowledge to bear on solving problems. Joint decisions are not necessarily better than unilateral ones, but including people makes their knowledge available to the decision-maker, whoever that may be. 4.?The knowledge thus provided is more than the facts about the problem—it also includes the facts about the self-interest of the various parties affected by the situation.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

People must therefore get away from the idea that serious work is restricted to beating to death a well-defined problem in a narrow discipline, while broadly integrative thinking is relegated to cocktail parties. In academic life, in bureaucracies, and elsewhere, the task of integration is insufficiently respected.