Quotes About Problem-solving

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

You can resolve any situation with wisdom

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.

I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

When I can't build a cathedral, I build a bridge to get there.

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.

Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything

Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be

The law of perceptual problem solving, or peekaboo, should now make more sense. It may have evolved to ensure that the search for visual solutions is inherently pleasurable rather than frustrating, so that you don't give up too easily.