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Quotes About Problem-solving

Somewhere in the scientific method lies the answer for the needed management techniques. It is obvious.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn't know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Cuando el debate pasa de echarle culpas a pedirle a la otra parte que resuelva la percepción equivocada, todo mejora.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
I could have tuned myself into sleep, but I had an idea that if I stared into space and tried not to think about the things that were currently bothering me, I might be giving my subsconscious time to work on the problem.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Hey, I'd found an option that was even less appealing that starving to death. Let's hear it for human ingenuity!
~ Elizabeth Bear
Let's stop adding v and just keep going, and try to think of a solution before we become an ironic footnote to salvage tug history, shall we?
~ Elizabeth Bear
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.
~ Elizabeth Strout
If you cant go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
There are really very important differences between the type of creativity involved in being a scientist and being a technical engineer. It means that I'm able to think in very different ways and come up with approaches to things that are different from the way a basic scientist might think.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Ensure that the career you are so passionate about is able to solve some burning problem or fulfils a basic need of people. Then you will be in demand.
~ B. K. Narayan
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
~ B.F. Skinner
F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.
~ Christian Horner
Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
~ Walter O'Brien
I think the thing is resolving problems rather than letting them fester.
~ A. J. Pritchard
I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
~ Sarah Vowell
When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.
~ Myron Rolle
Engineers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally dissatisfied with the way the world is and want to make it better. There are so many things you could do with technology if you can match it up with real problems.
~ Martin Cooper
The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn't find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.
~ Sara Davies
I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.
~ Rose Namajunas
The great thing about 'Breaking Bad' was they were able to write themselves out of anything.
~ Mel Rodriguez
Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.
~ Arthur Bloch
When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil.
~ Garrison Keillor
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?
~ Garrison Keillor