Solutions Quotes - Page 37

• I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

  Illeana Douglas

  Boys, Men, Confusing

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• You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

  Bill McCollum

  Law, Drug, Enforcement

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• Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

  Scott Berkun

  Challenges, Innovation, Problem

  Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.10, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, People, Goal

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• Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Keys, Perspective, Ordinary

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• People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  People, Making Money, Excuse

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• The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

  Peter Drucker

  Problem, Come Up, Dangerous

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• Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

  Shelley Berkley

  Idaho, Problem, Social

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• It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

  Daniel Pipes

  Mistake, Evil, Islam

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• Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

  Andrew Wiles

  Mean, Idaho

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

  Peter Straub

  Lying, Yield, Blue

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• Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Answers, Photographer

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Whining isn't a scalable solution.

  Seth Godin

  Whining

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• NIKE is focused on elevating and accelerating innovation in our products, services and our digital ecosystem. This requires progressive and agile technology solutions that keep pace with our growth, which is what Juniper's solutions offer.

  Anthony Watson

  Nike, Technology, Ecosystems

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• Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Believe, Struggle, Class

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• When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.

  Bill Crawford

  Rushing, Problem

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• Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

  Bill Crawford

  Determination, Self, Long

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• The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Decision, Tree, Problem

  "Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering: Programme Development by Stepwise Refinement". Book edited by Manfred Broy and‎ Ernst Denert, June 27, 2002.

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• In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, People, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.541, Shambhala Publications

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• Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

  Willy Russell

  Middle East, East, Middle

  Willy Russell (2014). “Shirley Valentine & One For The Road”, p.4, A&C Black

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• During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

  Michael Vick

  Problem, Prison, Wanted

  "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:
  1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).
  2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).
  The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

  Tim Ferriss

  Law, Two, Important

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• Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Mean, Simplicity, Originality

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• The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Health, Drug, Problem

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