Problem Solving Quotes - Page 15

• The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

  John Bolton

  Problem, Competitors, Marketplace

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• Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  People, Mind, Problem

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• the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Knives, Way, Sides

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays”, Prentice Hall

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• If the door is locked, try the window.

  Lynn Caine

  Creativity, Doors, Trying

  Lynn Caine (1978). “Lifelines”

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• The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

  Elsa Barker

  Art, Common, Problem

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• Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Peace, Attitude

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• A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

  Abraham Flexner

  Motivational, Math, Science

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

  Bryan Adams

  Inspirational, Sports, Opportunity

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• Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Top Management, Decision, Leader

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.182, John Wiley & Sons

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• Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Goes On, World, Cucumbers

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• I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.

  George C. Marshall

  Real, Distance, Men

  The Marshall Plan, delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

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• Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't always and cultures don't always classify things the way we would expect. We have what we call common-sense ways of doing it. They're not common sense; they're just ours. But again, we don't have a strong case there. We're just problem solving there.

  Daniel C. Peterson

  Strong, Horse, Honesty

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• The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

  Tom Peters

  Availability, Abet, Information

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• Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

  Don Tapscott

  Effectiveness, Long, Innovation

  "The Spirit of Collaboration Is Touching All of Our Lives". Condensed Version of Installment Speech as Trent University Chancellor, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 07, 2013.

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• Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems.

  John F. Kennedy

  Challenges, Way, Generations

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Interesting, Problem, Difficult

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• Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.

  Dave Freudenthal

  Change, Commitment, Problem

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Worry, Important

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• The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Children, Opportunity

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• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Judgement, Intuition

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

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• Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

  Paul A. Kaufman

  Skills, Creative, Listening

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• Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on
  cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!

  George Carlin

  War, Cancer, America

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• Сase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Skills, Study, Problem

  Source: bigthink.com

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