Quotes on Problem Solving

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.