Quotes about Problem-solving

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

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

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

Whether a problem is direct, indirect, or no control, we have in our hands the first step to the solution. Changing our habits, changing our methods of influence and changing the way we see our no control problems are all within our Circle of Influence.