Problem Solvers Quotes

• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Editors

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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  We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Problem

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Inspirational, Leadership, Choices

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Real, Titles

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• Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

  Robert Ringer

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Robert J. Ringer (2000). “Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

  Howard Gardner

  Years, Twenties, Different

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• Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

  Carol S. Dweck

  Trying, Labels, Information

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• I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

  Viola Davis

  Character, Want, Able

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Funny Inspirational, Working Together, Problem

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• You want to hire #‎ entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

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• The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Rewards, Problem, Difficult

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• There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

  Booker T. Washington

  Get Well, Mean, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.

  Lewis Schiff

  Organization, Needs, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Problem, Evolve, Solve

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• Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

  Cedric Price

  Architecture, Problem, Realisation

  Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

  Roseanne Barr

  Problem

  "This Is Woman’s Time!" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

  Marvin Minsky

  Intelligent, Space, Problem

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• Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

  John Maeda

  Demand, Problem, Higher

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• The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  World, Problem, Rich

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 24, 2012

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• Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Men, Leader

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• There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, People, Secret

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

  Larry Laudan

  Science, Ideas, Choices

  Larry Laudan (1978). “Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Needs, Problem, Mathematics

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