Problem Solving Quotes

“I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest -- but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Success is a collection of problems solved.”
― I. M. Pei

“Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.”
― David Eddings, Crystal Gorge

“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is solved by walking.”
― Latin proverb

“There are only two ways to solve a problem: stop dwelling, and start doing.”
― Emily Uraih

“Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace novel solutions. People’s lack of imagination prevents them from comprehending the significance of an innovative idea.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.”
― Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity

“[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.”
― Robert Epstein, Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence

“You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.”
― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future

“For what I am suggesting is that concern for the mysterious is at the heart of the humanities, whereas at the heart of the sciences there is a concern with the problematic. That this is a contrast, and not a dichotomy, is seen in the way in which problem-solving has a place in the humanities—though the most significant kind of problem is one that, in Marcel’s language, ‘conceals a mystery’—and in the complementary way in which some scientists, such as Einstein, have spoken of a deepening sense of awe and wonder awakened in them, an awe and wonder in the presence of the universe, that grows through the advance of the sciences, through the growing success in solving problems. But the contrast remains, and since problem-solving can be successful, whereas contemplation of mystery cannot, there cannot be in the humanities any hope for the sort of success the sciences have known. Nor in theology: and especially not in Christian theology whose central mystery is focused in the birth of a child in a stable, and the death of a man on a cross.”
― Andrew Louth, Discerning the Mystery: An Essay on the Nature of Theology

“The person who causes a problem may be the best person to solve it.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“Regardless of profession or title, at some level we are all hired to do the same job. We are all problem solvers, paid to anticipate, identify, prevent, and solve problems within our areas of expertise. This applies to any job, at any level, in any organization, anywhere in the world, and being aware of this is absolutely vital to job search and career success in any field.”
― Martin Yate, Knock 'Em Dead 2016: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

“Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method.”
― Robert M. Pirsig

“There are problems humans cannot solve, to wit: density dependent birth rates, loss of genetic diversity, the overturning of his population pyramid, traveling to the nearest star, and the extinction of Man.”
― Bill Gaede

“When the real problem is not well identified, only by chance a solution may be created.”
― Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality

“How will history judge us? Will our tales be sources of inspiration, or wells of caution?”
― Yunus D. Saleh, Crisis Management: The Art of Success and Failure

“People put problems in front of me, I solve them”
― Kirsten Beyer, Protectors

“Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence

“Our lives are cluttered by complexities and that leads to problems. Genius is the one solves simple problems which seem complicated.”
― Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

“If you ask what's your problem, most people won't be able to tell, yet they live miserable lives.”
― Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

“Pattern Thinking is a type of problem-solving thinking.”
― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future

“I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Listen the problem, problem will also listen to you”
― Debmaya Jash

“Innovation becomes simply “creating value by solving simple or complex problems.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age