Quotes About Problem-solving

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Rule 1. All problems (or dreams) are figureoutable. Rule 2. If a problem is not figureoutable, it's not really a problem—it's a fact of life or law of nature (e.g., death or gravity). Rule 3. You may not care enough to figure this problem out or achieve this particular dream. That's okay. Find another problem or dream that ignites a blazing fire in your heart and go back to Rule 1.

the brain is wired to answer questions. No matter what question you ask, your brain will immediately start searching for an answer.

She put down her screwdriver, turned to me, and said, "Don't be silly, Ree. Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Like everyone else, I believed the way to fix a problem was to look for the right answers. Instead, Joseph showed me that the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions. The skills he taught me rescued my career and saved my marriage as well.

the best way to solve a problem is to first come up with better questions.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

TEACHER: If you had five apples on your desk & the Boy next to you took three, what would you have?...STUDENT: A Fight.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.

no podemos seguir ignorando el hecho de que seguir usando una y otra vez palabras llenas de negatividad no sólo no nos va a ayudar a resolver los problemas que esas mismas palabras describen, sino que, muy al contrario, lo va a hacer aún mucho más difícil. No estoy hablando de desterrar las palabras negativas de nuestro vocabulario, sino de procurar modular los vocablos que utilizamos.

Como decía Albert Einstein, «ningún problema importante puede ser resuelto desde el mismo nivel de pensamiento que lo generó».

Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to 'think out of the box' and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely wrong. It is very difficult to be creative when 'anything goes' and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity.

The key to fixing a big problem is to select the right tools.

Why is stipulation a smart technique? Because when people already know (or will quickly find out) the problem that you're admitting to, your best move is to get it out of the way. Even better, you can often transform that problem into a powerful asset.

Here are the three keys: Get in (quickly and efficiently describe the issue), neutralize the problem (by explaining how to handle it or why it isn't really a problem), and get out (move on to the next topic —do not linger or go into excess detail). Here's an example.

you're not trying to solve the problem that's on the table right now (a kid who's violating curfew, a coworker who's missing deadlines, etc.). Instead, you're shifting people to a place where they can solve the problem—and the next one that comes up, and the one after that.

You're better than that. Start giving your customer solutions rather than just information.