Top 1200 Creative Problem Solving Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem.

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

Embrace who you are, and if people don't understand you, that's their own problem, that's their own insecurities. They're really the one with the problem - the people who are judging you and saying negative things to you, they are really the people with the problem, not you at all.

It's freeing to be able to consistently make creative decisions and ask creative questions of the team without feeling like, 'Does this make me vulnerable to getting canned?' That's a big part of being in a studio - they can always fire you.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

If you're going to solve a weight-loss problem - or smoking problem for that matter - you must address both the psychological and physiological.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.

Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem.

Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.

The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

When you've fought and fought to keep positive and to keep creative even though there was not a space to be creative, well, you show me any human who is not angry after 60 years of that.

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

My days, sometimes, it's just about work. I'm not thinking about taking a picture in the studio, and I don't have the time to stop being creative to stop and post on Instagram. That's not a part of my creative process.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

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 once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.

The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it.

It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.