Quotes About Problem-solving

with no tools?

You got to figure out how to eat your snack while your elbows are touching. You got to learn how to twist your little plastic utensil.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

Success is the ability to solve problems as well. A goal or an objective unachieved, in any area, is merely a problem unsolved. This is why a systematic approach to problem solving, one that works at a higher level and more consistently, is absolutely vital for you to achieve the maximum success that is possible for you. Think

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. Intelligent beings can solve problems better, live longer, and leave more offspring. Until the invention of nuclear weapons, intelligence powerfully aided survival.

If you think a hammer is the only way to hammer / A nail, you ain't thought of the nail correctly.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them...

Don't get your knickers in a knot just yet, Tiff,' she said briskly. 'It won't solve anything an' will just make you walk odd.

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.

But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.

Commander Vimes always says that when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, you just keep pulling until you find a meatball.

From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.

The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools.

Hackathons are an amazing way to engage the team, foster collaboration, and knock out great work.

I'm great at untangling knots and will sit there for 20 minutes until it's done.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.