Problem Solving Quotes

“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.”
― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.”
― Manuel de Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“There is no fault, only responsibility.”
― Rob Liano

“As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.”
― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

“If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time—'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

“When you're problem solving with a team and somebody has an idea separate the idea from the person talking, because once in a while a jackass might come up with something useful.”
― Rachel Brady, Final Approach

“The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).”
― Ray Dalio

“Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done correctly had required a moment when he hit the rewind button. In each case he had to rework something that he discovered was not perfect. He talked about doing it on Toy Story, when the character of Woody had evolved into being a jerk, and on a couple of occasions with the original Macintosh. " If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. " That's what other companies do.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins."
"And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly.”
― David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery

“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”
― Albert Einstein

“If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.”
― Deborah J. Levine, Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom

“To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it's cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem--rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place blame.”
― Charlie Herrick

“People who are winning at working don't ignore the problems they encounter.”
― Nan S. Russell

“Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough to make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age.”
― Jonas Salk

“Eso es política, y la política es estúpida. Ante un problema, una conducta racional sería tratar de solucionarlo, pero la solución política siempre será negar su existencia.”
― Yeyo Balbás, Pax romana

“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.”
― Balan Gothandaraman

“I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I can't get the end of it into my hand.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem.”
― Sarah Napthali, Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children: Becoming a Mindful Parent

“After a few months, I decided to do one more leg of the Le Noise tour and film the last show with Jonathan Demme in Toronto's Massey Hall/ It turned out to be a great night. Everyone was very happy because we had captured it. During a review of the digital files, we realized that the resolution was not full, it was a stepped down quality, not the best it could be. My own team's excuses were not adequate, because I was not informed of the decision to go to a lesser quality. Lesser quality is so accepted as normal now that even I had used it unknowingly. I went back to Massey Hall and set up a PA system like the one I used at the show, played back the mixes through the PA, and rerecorded the house sound at the highest resolution. I did the best I could with a bad situation. It does sound great now. Thankfully, the PA mix was only one step down from the highest resolution, so when it resonated in the hall and was rerecorded at the highest level, a high resolution hall sound was captured.”
― Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

“Masalah yang tidak di hadapi dengan tenang, masalah tersebut akan membutakan mata hatimu secara perlahan.”
― Mochamad Fathurizqon Mutiudin

“If you ever find yourself in a jam, just take a moment to sit and think; calculate things, look at every angle, and then wonder where all that jam came from.”
― Melanie Kay Taylor

“Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Leaders who get team members to solve their own problems are making a sound investment that will pay off with many benefits: their team members will become less dependent on them, more -self-¬directing, more ¬self-¬sufficient, and more capable of solving problems on their own.”
― Dr. Thomas Gordon

“Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and discussed physics while watching the sunrise. "This is how many discoveries were made," one scientist said.”
― Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon