Solving Quotes

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

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

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as 'off limits,' and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.

The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.