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Problem Solving Quotes

45 Total

If you come to your boss early with a problem, you get a partner. If you come late with a disaster, you get a judge.

If I’d know how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.

– Andy Rooney

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

– Thomas Edison

I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

– Ashleigh Brilliant

Houston, we have a problem.

– James Lovell

Get perspective and reflect rather than just continuing to do the same thing.

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.

– H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem, there is a simple solution….and it is nearly always wrong.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

– Rene Descartes

Don’t push so hard that people resist your solution, but don’t take so long that people lose interest.

Don’t Just DO Something, Stand There!

Doing nothing is very hard to do – you never know when you’re finished.

– Leslie Nielsen

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Anytime you thing that the problem is “out there”, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is “out there” then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

– Charles F. Kettering