Best Problem Solving Quotes

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

When you struggle with a problem, that’s when you understand it.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

99% of all problems can be solved by money — and for the other 1% there’s alcohol.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Leadership is solving problems.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

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.

If the door is locked, try the window.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised – to notice that there is something funny going on.

The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers

In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.

No problem is too big it can’t be run away from

We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

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

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

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

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I don’t want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

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

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It’s problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.

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.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

Children aren’t born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components – the desire to speak out…and that’s where the struggle for democracy begins.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.