Solving Quotes

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. (Albert Einstein)
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. View quote
Don Tapscott
I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general. View quote
Robert Aumann
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. View quote
Andrew Wiles
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. View quote
Georg Cantor
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies. View quote
Ben Carson
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. View quote
Margaret Mead
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. View quote
Elon Musk
Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. (Peter Drucker)
Reflexion is careful and laborious thought, and watchful attention directed to the agreeable effect of one's plan. Invention, on the other hand, is the solving of intricate problems and the discovery of new principles by means of brilliancy and versatility. View quote
Vitruvius
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. View quote
Martha Beck
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. View quote
Thomas Harris
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. View quote
Beverly Cleary
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and live in a tiled roof house, we have not accomplished his will.... We have already reached the status of a strong country in the military field, let alone politics and ideology, but there are still quite a number of things lacking in people's lives. I am trying to implement his will by solving these problems. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem. View quote
Russell L. Ackoff
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product. View quote
Jonathan Ive
One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer. (Stephen Hawking)
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. View quote
Sheryl Crow
A further justification for the study of philosophy is that for many people it can be a very pleasurable activity. There is something to be said for this defence of philosophy. Its danger is that it could be taken to be reducing philosophical activity to the equivalent of solving crossword puzzles. View quote
Nigel Warburton