logo

Quotes About Problem-solving

Identifying our customers' problems deepens their interest in the story we are telling. Every story is about somebody who is trying to solve a problem, so when we identify our customers' problems, they recognize us as a brand that understands them.
~ Donald Miller
What is the chief source of conflict that your products and services defeat?
~ Donald Miller
A GOOD OFFER AND CALL TO ACTION E-MAIL Similar to the nurturing e-mail, the offer and call-to-action e-mail aims to solve a problem. The only difference is that the solution is your product and a strong call to action has been inserted.
~ Donald Miller
If we really want to satisfy our customers, we can offer much more than products or services; we can offer to resolve an external, internal, and philosophical problem whenever they engage our business.
~ Donald Miller
When writing their one-liners, many people fail to connect the problem, solution, and result. For instance: Many families struggle to spend time together, but at Acorn Family Camp, we solve the problem of boring summers so families create memories that last.
~ Donald Miller
Keep Asking "Which Results In . . ." to Get to Your Solution
~ Donald Miller
Las preguntas que se hace el cliente son: «¿Esta marca sabe lo que hace? ¿Va a merecer la pena que invierta mi tiempo y mi dinero? ¿De verdad va a poder ayudarme a resolver mi problema?»
~ Donald Miller
Once a customer gets curious about how you can solve their problem, they may come looking for more information. This is where your website comes in.
~ Donald Miller
he said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along
~ Donna Tartt
I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.
~ J.A. Konrath
If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.
~ Jack Canfield
people only complain about things they can do something about.
~ Jack Canfield
Naturally, I am the leader, so it is my problem to see that each of us contributes his share'.
~ Unknown
I'm a decent engineer with an analytical mind. Using my problem-solving skills to whack my husband became a challenge. A fun challenge, in fact. I wanted to put him away so I wouldn't have to pay the price for murdering him. What an exciting challenge for an engineer! Spousal murder as a work project. My juices started flowing.
~ Unknown
helps in computer programming
~ Jack Kornfield
Square wheels are hard to sell
~ Unknown
This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions." "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems." "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works." —Alan J. Perlis
~ James A. Whittaker
Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.
~ Luke Perry
Hopper would later gain fame both as a teacher and as a pioneer in the development of high-level programming languages. Yet perhaps her best-known contribution came in the summer of 1945, when she and her colleagues were tracking down a glitch in the Mark II and discovered a large moth that had gotten crushed by one of the relay switches and shorted it out. She taped the dead moth into the logbook with the notation "First case of an actual bug being found.
~ Unknown
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
~ M. Scott Peck
the description of myself that I like best is that of problem-solver, or doer.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Educational projects like Odyssey of the Mind are a terrific example of how to encourage creative problem solving in kids. Do talk to your child's school about bringing this type of program into the classroom.
~ Unknown
I wished Odysseus were there so I could ask him: but how did the king get that man to help him, the one who had struck him so deep? The answer that came to me was from a different tale. Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: "What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?" He'd smiled in the firelight. "That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.
~ Madeline Miller