Problem Solving Quotes - Page 5

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

  Carl Jung

  Life, Acceptance, Important

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• You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Skills, Asking, Problem

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day”, p.100, Dell

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• The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem.

  Gordon Bethune

  Inspirational, Work, Steps

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• Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Heart, Hot

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Children, Play, Skills

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  Lou Holtz

  Frustration, People, Confusion

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• Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

  Brian Redman

  Understanding, Experts, Problem

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Peers, Patterns

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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

  William of Ockham

  Peace, Creativity, Simple

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• We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

  Edward de Bono

  Mean, Doe, Alternatives

  "Six Thinking Hats". Book by Edward de Bono, 1985.

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• Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

  Jean Piaget

  Long Distance Relationship, Learning, Distance Love

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• The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Stronger, Noise, Defining

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• To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Listening, Problem

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• Peace is a process, a way of solving problems

  John F. Kennedy

  Way, Problem, Process

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Decision, Assumption

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• We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, Problem, Capable

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

  Seth Godin

  Doors, World, Way

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• The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Wall, Years

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

  Chuck Close

  Important, Problem, Creation

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

  Nita Leland

  Voice, Creative, Attention

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Attitude, Believe, Ignorance

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.286

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• Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

  Frank Herbert

  Way, Problem, Dealing With Problems

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.251, Penguin

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Creativity, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.32, Penguin

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• Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.

  Michael McMillian

  Survival, Foundation, Problem

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