Quotes about Problem-solving

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

That's two dollars and a half. Who can we borrow that from?" "That's easy. I can always borrow two dollars and a half.