Solutions Quotes - Page 24

• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.

  Harvey Mackay

  Athlete, Winning, Skills

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• It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.

  Maimonides

  Essence, May, Problem

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.297, Moses Maimonides

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• Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Organization, Ideas

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• As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

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• 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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• We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside an independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Independent, Israel

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

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• No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

  J. P. Morgan

  Mistake, Science, Simple

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

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• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Country, War, Fighting

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Political, Politics

  Ralph Nader (2012). “The Seventeen Solutions: New Ideas for Our American Future”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

  Bob Ney

  Common Sense, Gasoline, Pumps

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• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Democracy, Problem, Findings

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• In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

  Frances O'Grady

  Powerful, Opportunity, Austerity

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• I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Worry, Problem

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• The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Should Have, America

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• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Stay Calm, Might

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• The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

  George Papandreou

  Problem, Theoretical

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• When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

  Henry Paulson

  Cost, Ugly, Problem

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• The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

  Shimon Peres

  Winning, Uprising, Israel

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• With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

  Steven Pinker

  Violence, Problem, Human Nature

  "What Comes Naturally" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. November 25, 2002.

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• Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Animal, Work Out

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Simple, Rationality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

  Vladimir Putin

  Pay, Way, Facts

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• There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Gun, Spoons, World

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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