Problems And Solutions Quotes

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly.

Every man born of woman has problems.

You only have to solve two problems when going to the moon: first, how to get there; and second, how to get back. The key is don't leave until you have solved both problems.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

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

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

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

[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

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

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent we will have to digest the definition of real development: development is synonymous with culture. When we sublimate nature in a way that we achieve peace, happiness, prosperity and, ultimately, fulfilment along with satisfying our basic needs, we march towards culture.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.