Problem Solving Quotes

Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

I accepted that if you have a problem, you must face it and not gloss over it.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove the cause.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

Let me have the best solution worked out. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action.

Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.

There are no problems, only solutions.

Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.