Problem Solving Quotes - Page 4

• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Simple Solutions, Neat And Tidy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

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• Don't find fault, find a remedy.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Mistake, Decision

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• Life is a crisis - so what!

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Problem, Life Is, Crisis

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• Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, Light, Judging

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• We need men who can dream of things that never were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Dream, Inspiration

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  Witter Bynner

  Mistake, Decision, World

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

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Food, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Running, Problem, Complicated

  Peanuts (comic strip), 27 Feb. 1963

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• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

  Ayn Rand

  Exercise, Mind, Use

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.61, Penguin

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Believe, Secret

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• 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.

  John Foster Dulles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Mouths, Diplomats, Problem

  "Affronts, Insults and Indignities". Book by Morris Mandel, 1975.

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• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  Rene Descartes

  Success, Witty, Humorous

  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes (Part 2), 1637.

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• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  M. Scott Peck

  Change, Forever, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Leadership is solving problems.

  Colin Powell

  Problem

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.107, Ballantine Books

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