Problem Solving Quotes - Page 6

• I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

  Adam Savage

  Tools, Problem, I've Learned

  "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Degrees, Problem

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• It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy are all instances of inductive reasoning. (Detectives typically induce, rather than deduce.) None of these things can be done separately from each other, or from anything else. They are pseudo-categories.

  Frank Smith

  Detectives, Pseudo, Done

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.25, Routledge

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• Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

  Aaron Levie

  People, Innovation, Needs

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• When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.

  Stephen Covey

  Opportunity, Problem, Process

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• In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

  Simon Gray

  Important, Problem, Worst

  Simon Gray (2013). “Simon Gray: Plays 2: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car”, p.60, Faber & Faber

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• One of the reasons most people are not good at solving problems and manifesting or attracting into their life what they want is because their thoughts are always on what's wrong and on what's missing and on the problem.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Missing, Want

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• Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Laziness, Recognition

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• As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

  Russell Brand

  Helping, Problem, Producers

  "Russell Brand and Helen Mirren Interview ARTHUR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 9, 2011.

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• Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Progress, Guarantees

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• The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Book, Ideas

  Polly Berrien Berends (1975). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, School, Charitable Work

  "Drew Welcomes Second Daughter" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and behavioral sophistication some species exhibit without supposing that they have genuine beliefs. But once these ethologists finish making the case for animal belief, they quickly move to talk of animal knowledge as well. What I argue is that this is not a mere façon de parler.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Moving, Animal, Supposing That

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Immigration, Reform

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• There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Physicians, Care

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Meaning Of Life, Problem, Life Is

  Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra

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• When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Fall, Careers, Creative

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• I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

  Masi Oka

  Appreciation, Thinking, People

  "Masi Oka: Coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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• When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.

  Ben Sollee

  Running, New York, Creativity

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced people to do more sophisticated things.

  Clayton Christensen

  Space, People, Progress

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Educational, Thinking

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• Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

  Seymour Papert

  Educational, Skills, People

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

  Chris Carter

  Airplane, Artist, Thinking

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• Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

  R. C. Sproul

  Intelligent, Anxiety, Overcoming

  R. C. Sproul (1975). “Discovering the Intimate Marriage”

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