Problem Solving Quotes

“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.”
― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.”
― Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

“Look at your heart-flower and smile.
You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.”
― Sri Chinmoy, Meditation: Man Perfection in God Satisfaction

“The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).”
― Ray Dalio

“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”
― Olin Miller

“Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins."
"And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly.”
― David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery

“Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“After a few months, I decided to do one more leg of the Le Noise tour and film the last show with Jonathan Demme in Toronto's Massey Hall/ It turned out to be a great night. Everyone was very happy because we had captured it. During a review of the digital files, we realized that the resolution was not full, it was a stepped down quality, not the best it could be. My own team's excuses were not adequate, because I was not informed of the decision to go to a lesser quality. Lesser quality is so accepted as normal now that even I had used it unknowingly. I went back to Massey Hall and set up a PA system like the one I used at the show, played back the mixes through the PA, and rerecorded the house sound at the highest resolution. I did the best I could with a bad situation. It does sound great now. Thankfully, the PA mix was only one step down from the highest resolution, so when it resonated in the hall and was rerecorded at the highest level, a high resolution hall sound was captured.”
― Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream