Quotes About Problem-solving

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

I always see what's... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you're already learning how to make it less harmful.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

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

Never buy your kid a Puzzle that you can't solve!

Just because he might not know the difference between a spanner and a hammer, didn't mean a good dose of Heroic kicking wouldn't solve the same problem.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.