Problem Solving Quotes - Page 7

• Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

  Andrew Weil

  Alternatives, World, Problem

  Andrew Weil (2004). “The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are all drawn to problems and solving problems. Joy doesn't demand our time. So we have to mark that time on our schedules. That's the only way you are going to get it. Five minutes, three times a day in your schedule. That's doable.

  Bonnie St. John

  Joy, Three, Schedules

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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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• 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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• The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

  Larry Laudan

  Science, Ideas, Choices

  Larry Laudan (1978). “Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

  Chuck Close

  Interesting, Problem, Creation

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• Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

  David Elkind

  Children, Practice, Numbers

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Communication, Character

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• I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Foxes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

  Russell Brand

  Stuff, Helping, Kind

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

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• If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

  Jane Haddam

  Way, Action, Problem

  Jane Haddam (2013). “Wicked, Loving Murder”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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• I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

  Lisa Randall

  Thrill, Becoming, Lawyer

  "Lisa Randall: Warped view of the universe". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2005.

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• There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

  Paul Theroux

  Problem, Worthwhile, Difficulty

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

  George Nethercutt

  Effectiveness, Problem, Solutions

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• There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.

  John Medina

  Powerful, Loss, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Self Confidence, Creative

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• I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.

  Brian Cowen

  Believe, Issues, Problem

  "An Irishman's Diary". www.irishtimes.com. January 09, 2009,.

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• But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.

  Rene Dubos

  Expression, Creating, Challenges

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• As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teacher, Hard Work, Writing

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Over 18 years of us solving problems together, my daughter has shown me that she's got a good head on her shoulders, that she is pretty good at solving the problems that affect her life. If she wants my input, she gets it.

  Ross W. Greene

  Daughter, Years, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Past, Data, Ideas

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

  Masaaki Imai

  Tools, Problem, Used

  Source: blog.deming.org

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• My brand of leadership, which is very focused on bringing people together, solving problems - it's what I have always tried to do - just had a hard time being as powerfully compelling in the campaign as I think it has been in previous years for other candidates.

  Hillary Clinton

  Hard Times, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When someone comes to you to talk about a problem, if you move the conversation on to a discussion of potential solutions, you fuel their creative problem solving abilities on average by 20% - not to mention you make them feel better! You make them smarter and more empowered to tackle challenges.

  Michelle Gielan

  Moving, Feel Better, Average

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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