A Quote by Jack Lew

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

Jack Lew

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Define Never Painful Problem Reach Solution

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Jack Lew
American - Public Servant
Born: August 29, 1955

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Susan Sontag

Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Malcolm X

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Steve Jobs

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Pearl S. Buck

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Chip Kidd

I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.

Andrew Young

Often how you define the problem will determine whether or not you're able to find a real solution.

Gordon Hempton

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Deepak Chopra

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must? be the only solution.

Raymond E. Feist

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

Robin Williams

We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.

Nick Bostrom

No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.