Quotes About Problem-solving

Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.

A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!

Daydreams may be the main source of creativity, but night dreams are the main source of solving the problems engendered by the daydreams.

Wise, seeing that his well was ruined, made the best of a bad bargain. He arranged to take over the job for a dollar a body, and before the day was out had filled his well, sealed it, and earned himself sixty dollars.

Nothing I can do. We lost the outriggers. I need the wheels free to engage the crankshaft.

We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

Thinking outside-of-the-box is a tactical skill that should be practiced daily by everyone. A truly great 'strategic' skill is when someone is able to get others to think outside-of-the-box.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Try to think of new ways to solve the old problems. Very often we look at something we have and say, "I could make it better.' That's innovation.

ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.

Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

What are smart people for if not to untangle tangled things?

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules.

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more you entertain your unhappiness

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.