Quotes on Problem Solving

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks._x000D_ _x000D_ All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.