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Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution. -- Robert H. Schuller
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. -- John Foster Dulles
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. -- Viktor E. Frankl
No pressure, no diamonds. -- Thomas Carlyle
Life is a crisis - so what! -- Malcolm Bradbury
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. -- Michael J. Gelb
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. -- Edward R. Murrow
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path. -- Andy Stanley
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. -- Georg Cantor
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. -- Thomas Harris
No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from! -- Charles M. Schulz
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. -- Isaac Asimov
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live. -- George Vaillant
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. -- Carl Jung
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. -- Albert Einstein
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. -- Jeffrey Veen
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness. -- Ayn Rand
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -- Charles Dickens
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place. -- Edward de Bono
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. -- Agnes de Mille
Making a movie is a lot of problem solving. -- Gia Coppola
Hackers often describe what they do as playfully creative problem solving. -- Heather Brooke
I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving. -- Raul Ruiz
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. -- Thomas Harris
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. -- John Bolton
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. -- Gale Norton
A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career. -- Bruce Rauner
Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations. -- Dilip Shanghvi
There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point. -- Ty Burrell
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning. -- Tom Chatfield
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving. -- Brandon Boyd
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. -- Stephen LaBerge
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. -- Laura Linney
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement. -- Jesse James Garrett
Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. -- Brandon Boyd
I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out. -- John Zorn
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem! -- Roseanne Barr
The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product. -- Jonathan Ive
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. -- Don Tapscott
Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington. -- Steve Daines
I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving. -- Masi Oka
Traditional models of work only let us cross out the needs on the very bottom of the pyramid - basic sustenance. On the flipside, independent employment within the network of the new sharing economy addresses our needs for a sense of community and belonging, autonomy and respect, creativity and problem solving. -- Leah Busque
In so many ways, being a literary agent is an irresistible job to me. Not only does it involve all the things I love - being an advocate for others, problem solving, and going to meetings - yes, that's true, I love meetings, though everyone says it's bizarre! - but most importantly, I love working with people whose writing excites me. -- Rebecca Stead
All life is problem solving -- Karl Popper
Creating something is all about problem-solving. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli -- B. F. Skinner
Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people. -- Kenneth Kaunda
You are not a problem that needs solving. -- Eckhart Tolle
Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation. -- Chuck Close
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving. -- Richard Branson
If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem. -- Erik Naggum
I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way. -- Hanneli Mustaparta
Most research is a synthesis of problem solving and creativity. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating. -- Robert Fritz
All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem. -- William Zinsser
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. -- Imran Khan
Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving. -- Barton Gellman
A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude -- Jesse Schell
You can increase your problem-solving skills by honing your question-asking ability. -- Michael J. Gelb
For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it. -- Edwin Catmull
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. -- Michael Crichton
Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer. -- Eva Vertes
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out. -- Robert Greenberg
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward. -- Heinrich Heine
The first step to problem solving is figuring out who's got the problem. -- Gordon Bethune
People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving. -- Peter Salovey
Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal. -- Wim Crouwel
So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up. -- Rick Riordan
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent. -- Herbert Simon
Your job isn't to make money. It's to find a problem that needs solving. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. -- Olivier Sarkozy
People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it. -- William Raspberry
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist. -- Zig Ziglar
By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem. -- Nirmala Srivastava
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. -- Adam Savage
I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting. -- Chuck Close
A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem. -- Anthony Foxx
Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state. -- Melody Beattie
Ð¡ase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable. -- Robert J. Dolan
I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving. -- Herbert A. Simon
Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving. -- Paul A. Kaufman
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. -- Stephen Hawking
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. -- Frank A. Clark
The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved. -- Pete Seeger
I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010. -- David Stockman
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty -- Oscar Wilde
Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business. -- Richard Branson
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. -- Seth Godin
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile. -- Paul Theroux
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. -- Harold Davenport
Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. -- Peter Ginter
I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation. -- Chuck Close
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. -- Amartya Sen
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it. -- Zig Ziglar
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. -- Beverly Cleary
Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all. -- Steven Pinker
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs. -- Tom Peters
Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process. -- Chris Blackwell
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done. -- Steven Levitt
Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity. -- Daniel Goleman
Those thinking Why, When, Where, Who are information providers; the one thinking HOWis the leader in solving the problem. -- Vikrmn
Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side. -- George Polya
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. -- Zig Ziglar
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. -- Lisa Randall
I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems. -- Lawrence Lessig
It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode. -- Ross W. Greene
I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it. -- Tony Blair

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