Problem Solving Quotes

“You can't solve problems until you understand the other side." –Jeffrey Manber”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”
― Albert Einstein

“You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.”
― Amit Kalantri

“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.”
― Amit Kalantri

“That's enough crying about the problems, let's begin killing the problems.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.”
― Tommy Tenney, The God Catchers: Experiencing the Manifest Presence of God

“Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.”
― Russell L. Ackoff, The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables

“Advertising is far more than just a communications industry. It's a problem-solving industry that also teaches you about life, how it encourages you to focus your thinking and produce something of genuine value. Why? Because that will make the advertising task so much easier. You're not equipped with a unique set of insights and experiences across a broad range of markets, allowing you to bring clarity and inspiration to anything you wish to produce.”
― John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising

“The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.”
― Steve House, Beyond the Mountain

“We’ll never solve the problems we don’t talk about.”
― Justin Young

“Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and discussed physics while watching the sunrise. "This is how many discoveries were made," one scientist said.”
― Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

“To a hammer, every problem is a nail,” we said on the team but we called him ‘the screwdriver’. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.”
― Massimo Marino, Daimones

“To foster a solution mindset, tell employees that you are not interested in who or what caused the problem. You are only interested in hearing how we plan to go beyond the problem.”
― Jag Randhawa, The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation

“People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay determined.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“There's ALWAYS a way to fix something.”
― Steven Wolff

“If you ever find yourself in a jam, just take a moment to sit and think; calculate things, look at every angle, and then wonder where all that jam came from.”
― Melanie Kay Taylor

“Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another”
― Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

“Leaders who get team members to solve their own problems are making a sound investment that will pay off with many benefits: their team members will become less dependent on them, more -self-¬directing, more ¬self-¬sufficient, and more capable of solving problems on their own.”
― Dr. Thomas Gordon

“Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life!”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta

“I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.”
― S. Bear Bergman, Butch Is a Noun

“Life discoveries are lead by an acceptance of mistakes and efforts to correct them.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Sometimes letting go is the best solution”
― Mahsati Abdul

“Although Math can't teach us how to add love or minus hate, it teaches us that every problem has a solution”
― Anonymous

“Rather than micro-managing to resolve every problem, create the right atmosphere, process, and system that facilitate effective problem solving.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their eyes pop, as if they’re thinking, ‘Oh, I want to do it.”
― Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

“When Vincent didn’t understand something, he would figure it out. When Frank didn’t understand something, he’d light it on fire.”
― Nicole Castle, Les Recidivists

“Every problem has its solution until you give up trying out.”
― Pop

“Walk down a hallway, end up in a ballroom, double glass doors to a subway station, third exit on the left goes to a hardware store that sells only hammers. No screwdrivers, no chisels, not even any nails—just hammers. You’d be surprised how many problems you can solve with a hammer if you really put your mind to it.”
― Stefan Gagne, City of Angles: Vol//003 Lucidity

“Solving problems is better than forgetting them otherwise you will be reminded of them at a bad time.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice