Quotes About Problem-solving

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.

The British people have always been a practical breed.

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

There's no reason to feel embarrassed about presenting your product or service if it solves a problem.

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

Me and my husband think the internet is a really positive thing. We know games that have taught our children problem-solving skills but that doesn't mean we are going to say play 'Call of Duty.'

When somebody is describing their job as fixing problems for someone, that usually does not suggest that they're dealing with their tax returns.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

I'm the kid that tried to take Latin in school because I felt if I could understand the root of everything, then I could understand why it worked. That was what took me into engineering. And the reason I stayed is, engineering teaches you to solve problems. It teaches you to think.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Most teams are naturally flat; they have fewer members than a large enterprise, which allows for intimacy and trust to form. This makes collaborative problem solving in individual teams more straightforward.

Be specific about the problem behavior.

complaining to people who can do nothing tends to lower morale and productivity, while postponing effective action.

Among males, conflict resolution requires a rapid return to the basics, preferably sports or automotive mechanics.

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

leaders need to help people overcome the four "work-avoidance mechanisms" that most of the rest of us carry around in our heads. Those mechanisms are denial that a problem exists, the desire to escape responsibility even when we recognize the problem, the tendency to scapegoat others for causing it, and—worst of all—cynicism about the possibility of ever remedying the problem.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. —Bjarne Stroustrup, 1991