“ Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past. ”
- Thad Cochran- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
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“ Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
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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 Schuller- Copy
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“ The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. ”
- Elsa Barker- Copy
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“ When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system. ”
- Peter van der Linden- Copy
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“ Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ One of the false dichotomies of modern life is that between work and personal time. It is widely held that there is a set of skills that we need for one and quite a different set that we need for the other. But this is not true. The skills of problem-solving, for example are of great value in our personal lives, and overcoming stress and anxiety is a key skill in our work… ”
- Gillian Butler and Tony Hope- Copy
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“ The behavior of actually walking away from important problems is a relatively extreme negative approach to problem solving. In other cases, people may mentally "walk away" without physically removing themselves…Lack of attention to a task is not simply a result of "disinterest" or "laziness… ”
- John D. Bransford and Barry S. Stein- Copy
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“ The important point about problem solving is not that some people are better at it than others. Instead, the important point is that problem solving can be learned. It frequently isn't learned because it isn't taught. ”
- John D. Bransford and Barry S. Stein- Copy
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“ it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom… ”
- M. Scott Peck- Copy
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“ Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time…not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break… ”
- Charles Chic Thompson- Copy
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“ Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs. ”
- Esther Dyson- Copy
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“ President Reagan had a contagious sense of optimism. He believed deeply America was capable of solving our problems through our democratic process of self-government, and that other nations could do the same. ”
- Thad Cochran- Copy
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“ I tried to, with a series of self-imposed limitations, back myself into my own personal corner where nobody else's answers would fit. I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ We need to ask what are our common goals, and how can we work together toward solving problems and meeting needs. In the past we too often have said that because we differ from each other in points A and B, we can't work together at all. ”
- David Baker- Copy
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“ The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing… ”
- Emma Jung- Copy
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“ So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me — each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else' opinion, credo's and theories… ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "All striving is vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning — and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries — it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions… ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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