Top 1200 Creative Problem Solving Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

For me, it is about having a passion for solving a big problem and leaving a huge impact. Once you have that, everything else falls into place.

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it's going to drive some value.

?ase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

A lot of us saw Blackadder in terms of problem-solving - 'Did that work in that episode?' and so on. We were very picky.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.

I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.

Republicans must sell a big-cause, problem-solving vision - low-ego and happy-warrior in tone.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?

Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.

Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer.