Solutions Quotes - Page 40

• The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Phillips Brooks

  Sin, Behavior, Knowing God

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• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  Aaron Stanford

  Giving, Shows, Puzzles

  "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

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• If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.

  Youngme Moon

  Unique, Lasts, Vote

  Youngme Moon (2010). “Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd”, p.34, Crown Business

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• Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

  Ben Horowitz

  Organization, Needs, Clarity

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• Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.

  Blake Lewis

  Aztec, Office, Energy

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• Point at solutions instead of at each other.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton (2006). “Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management”, p.178, Harvard Business Press

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• Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Powerful, Book, Thinking

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• My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, Target, Problem

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 164), 1986.

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• If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Issues, World, Laptops

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• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Mean, Self, Important

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• Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

  Adrienne Rich

  Fall, Mean, Responsibility

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• We have a long way to go to understand that web analytics is a thinking man's tool, not a solution unto itself. On the bright side, 73% of those surveyed might still figure out that web analytics can help them drive actionable insights one day.

  Jim Sterne

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• It is increasingly obvious that environmentally sustainable solutions to world hunger can only emerge as people eat more plant foods and fewer animal products. To me it is deeply moving that the same food choices that give us the best chance to eliminate world hunger are also those that take the least toll on the environment, contribute the most to our long-term health, are the safest, and are also, far and away, the most compassionate towards our fellow creatures.

  John Robbins

  Moving, Animal, Long

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.302, Conari Press

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• Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

  John Denver

  Yield, Vegetarianism, World

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• The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Race, White, Politics

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• Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Successful

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• Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

  Pope Francis

  Jobs, Justice, New Job

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• If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Drs, May

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• When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Gun, Looks

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Journalism, Newspapers

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• Solutions must be based on compromises.

  Joschka Fischer

  Compromise

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• We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

  Whitfield Diffie

  Simple, Study, Problem

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• I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Strong, Believe, Iraq

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• [The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.

  Allen Newell

  Would Be, Levels, Problem

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 122), March 1976.

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• Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Answers, Complicated, Problem

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