Quotes About Problem-solving

La necesidad es la madre de la invención.

necessity being the mother of invention

because your child isn't challenging every second of every waking hour. He's challenging sometimes, particularly in situations where flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving are required.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.

By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Like their parents, the Korean children used more verbs than the English-speaking kids, while the English-speaking kids used more nouns. But in addition, the Korean-speaking children learned how to solve problems like using the rake to get the out-of-reach toy well before the English-speaking children. English speakers, though, started categorizing objects earlier than the Korean speakers.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

don't look too far ahead, just solve the next problem, then the next, then the next. Eventually you'll either run out of problems, or one of them will kill you. In either case, a solution.

Second, when your mind wanders, it starts to make new connections between things—which often produces solutions to your problems.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.

When a team is trying to solve a tricky problem of what to do next and is stuck among several alternatives, Humble Inquiry means asking, "What else do we need to know?" or "How did we/you arrive at this point?" This is particularly true when others propose something that we oppose or don't understand.