Problem Solving Quotes - Page 11

See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome - which I think is a more interesting place to be.

Chuck Close

Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

William Faulkner

Courage, Integrity, Believe

William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Teamwork, Reading, Writing

"A Radical Way Of Unleashing A Generation Of Geniuses" by Joshua Davis, www.wired.com. October 15, 2013.

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Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of the ground by putting a stick into a hole. Evolution has developed the brain's ability to solve puzzles, and at the same time has produced in our brain a pleasure of solving problems.

Martin Gardner

Science, Skills, Brain

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert A. Heinlein

Clever, Believe, Creativity

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.33, Penguin

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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Henry David Thoreau

Creativity, World, Novelty

Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

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I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.

Rick Riordan

Magic, Training, Stuff

Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.63, Penguin UK

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As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Jesse James Garrett

Successful, World, May

Interview with Erin Malone, October 27, 2002.

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Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
something personal.

Wim Crouwel

Design, Problem, Courses

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The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

Gay Talese

Inspirational, Real, Team

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Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Daniel Goleman

Creativity, Intelligent, Track

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When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Stephen Covey

Life, Change, Empathy

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Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the philosophy can use to meet their goals and design a world in which human needs are met while enhancing the health of this miraculous planet that supports us.

Toby Hemenway

Philosophy, Goal, Design

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Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

Chris Argyris

Errors, People, Focus

"Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.

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To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

Howard Schultz

Long, Leader, Problem

Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Georg Cantor

Education, Art, Math

Doctoral thesis, 1867.

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The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

George Polya

Education, Teacher, Teaching

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Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment.

Peter Block

Cousin, Moving, Commitment

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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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Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

Art, Nature, Math

Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

Robert Anton Wilson

Sex, Party, Brain

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Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

Richard Branson

Powerful, Adventure, Problem

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Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Melody Beattie

Recovery, Peaceful, Problem

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

Rick Riordan

Morning, Class, Magic

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