Quotes About Problem-solving

In other words, theorists like van der Leeuw envision that a switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture creates a virtuous circle between problem-solving capacity and societal size, gradually leading to an increase of the scale of cooperation. I

When I let him solve the problem himself, he was more likely to buy into the solution and not repeat the same counterproductive behavior in the future.

the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions

You broke the problem down and examined the component parts. Most men attempt to solve riddles by allowing their minds to leap like monkeys from branch to branch, without ever realizing that it is the root that needs examining. Always remember that, young prince. The method works with men as well as it works with riddles.

Managers should be hassle absorbers, not hassle creators.

When teams are asked to work together to analyze problems and design solutions, the quality is higher.

Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it's right there.

Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

This was for me one of those adult moments involving a choice. Do you shrug your shoulders and say, "I couldn't get it to work either," or do you tell the woman she spent the weekend trying to open a wine bottle with the broken knob to the dishwasher?

Since receiving my last phone bill I have taken to fastening the telephone to its cradle, using some of the threaded packing tape stolen from what used to be my job. In the rare event of an incoming daytime call I can always grab a knife or scissors, but luckily the task appears to be too strenuous during my ever increasing personal mystery hours. Another problem solved with simplicity and grace.

UNDER CONSTRAINTS, CREATIVITY THRIVES

What the lyric essay inherits from the public essay is a fact-hungry pursuit of solutions to problems

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

I care about working on interesting problems, and Shopify is this gift that keeps on giving for working on interesting problems with amazing people.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible and to present it so that it would be comprehensible to people accustomed to different modes of thought and with different educational preparations.

You have a problem, just ask yourself one simple question: What would Ray Charles do in a situation like this?

ho'oponopono (Hawaiian): Solving a problem by talking it out. After an invocation of the gods, the aggrieved parties sit down and discuss the issue until it is set right (pono means righteousness).

Being entrepreneurial means you will fail. You just have to be willing to listen to people who tell you something is broken, and then fix it.

IQ is a statistical method for quantifying specific kinds of problem-solving ability, mathematically convenient but not necessarily corresponding to a real attribute of the human brain, and not necessarily representing whatever it is that we mean by 'intelligence'.

Subordinates soon learn not to ask the Arsonist for help in solving the problems that he assigned them. If they do, instead of trying to identify the barriers to a solution, he changes the assignment altogether, and in the process he overloads his subordinates with new problems.

Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." "Well, I see thousands of stars," he replied. "And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes. "I guess it means we're going to have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you?" "To me, it means that someone has stolen our tent.