Quotes About Problem-solving

Writing programs (or programming) is a very creative and rewarding activity. You can write programs for many reasons ranging from making your living to solving a difficult data analysis problem to having fun to helping someone else solve a problem.

If something seems particularly hard, there is usually no value in staying up all night and staring at it. Take a break, take a nap, have a snack, explain what you are having a problem with to someone (or perhaps your dog), and then come back to it with fresh eyes.

Never solve a problem from its original perspective.

And concepts are crucial to cognition: cognitive scientists point out that they help us to categorize, learn, remember, infer, explain, problem-solve, generalize, analogize. Correspondingly, the lack of appropriate concepts can hinder learning, interfere with memory, block inferences, obstruct explanation, and perpetuate problems.

a lot of debating, pontificating, finger-pointing, outrage and no problem-solving. The noise from one controversy will ultimately fade and make way for the next…and then, the next.

There is nothing unusual about such noise. Chances are that if you happen to read this some years later, and turn on the television, you will see a couple of fresh, new controversies—with a lot of debating, pontificating, finger-pointing, outrage and no problem-solving.

You need to have a can-do attitude. There is always a way.

In life,you're going to have risk, so you have to say, 'My attitude going forward is how to I fix the problem.' And it's not trying to cling onto the past. When I look around, most problems happen because people are trying to cling onto the past.

Collective Consciousness. We have collectively created this reality. Old beliefs produce old results. We can collectively solve any problem, rewrite any program, create any reality. We do this by doing our individual parts and then collectively we complete the whole of humanity. This reality is collective consciousness. When we are collectively of one mind and conscious of what we are creating, then an unlimited new world opens up to us.

Breakthrough solutions start with reframed questions, and we are in need of breakthrough solutions in many, many realms.

a better question might be: How can I help the client's management arrive at the answer?

When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people's problems as our own.

The librarians sent books to the hospitals. They answered a thousand questions put to them by the military and civil authorities: How could Leningrad make matches? How could flint and steel lighters be manufactured? What materials were needed for candles? Was there any way of making yeast, edible wood, artificial vitamins? How do you make soap? The librarians found recipes for candles in old works of the eighteenth century.

Don't find fault, find a remedy. —Henry Ford

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

Use Self-Talk for Managing Your Own Anger • I'll focus on dealing with the problem and stay calm. • This isn't about proving that I am right and they are wrong. I don't have to "win" this, I have to manage it. • I need to keep reminding myself about what the ultimate goal is here. • This isn't a disaster, it's a small problem to be solved.

What's the biggest and most important problem I can solve with my gifts and skills? Or: How do I find my consciousness, my truest self?

a technique known to psychologists studying problem solving as "generate and test." To solve a problem, all the possible solutions are generated and then tested to see if they offer a solution. It's a form of trial and error, but not as random; it's guided and purposeful.

Image streaming has been widely used for personal growth, corporate problem solving, and think tanking. An additional and unexpected benefit is that in at least one study with physics students at Southwest State University in Minnesota, the students experienced an average 20-point increase in their IQs after only 25 hours of practicing image streaming. Your left brains are probably wondering, "Hey, how can that be? How can people increase their IQs when intelligence is considered,

An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.