Top 1200 Creative Problem Solving Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Gratitude unseals fountains of creativity, because a grateful person is relaxed. This allows him to take stock of his circumstances with an objective mind. A creative person often gets three-dimensional answers to his problems. -.

Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

Being able to afford getting groceries - it frees people up to be creative. I think when you're spending 16 hours of every day to pay your rent and get food, I just don't see where there's time outside of that to be creative and make things.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.

We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.

The people are doing everything they can to stop Democrats! The problem is, the media is running the opposition, not the Democrats. You want to stop this? Stop the media. How do you stop the media? Turn 'em off, don't believe 'em, don't let 'em affect what you think and do. Beyond that, get creative.