Solution Quotes

• The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • High
  • Education

• A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Children
  • Statement
  • Targets

• My opinion is that prostitution always existed and will always exist. So I think it's worth trying to give these women the best working conditions, in terms of social help and health. It's too difficult to close your eyes and say: "" Closing your eyes is not a good solution!

  

  Bertrand Bonello
  • Working
  • Prostitution
  • My Opinion

• When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

  

  Carlos Cuaron
  • Script
  • Sibling
  • Rivalry

• When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Problem
  • Solution

• If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • Solution
  • Killing
  • Disagree

• Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Technology
  • Goal
  • Complexity

• The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Writing
  • Problems
  • Experienced

• Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.

  

  Amy Ziering
  • Focus
  • Solution
  • Commanders

• When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Problem
  • Ugly
  • Cost

• Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?

  

  Edward Humes
  • Change
  • Prison
  • Public Safety

• The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Problem
  • Living
  • Solution

• I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

  

  Ivica Dacic
  • War
  • Peaceful
  • Kosovo

• Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Problem
  • Changes
  • Solution

• I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Nuclear
  • Gas
  • Radiation

• Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Found
  • Lovers
  • Solution

• Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Unknown
  • Capacity
  • Human ingenuity

• The situation in the cabins, which threatens to lead to another labor dispute this week is fair neither to our colleagues nor to our customers, a solution can only lie in dialogue.

  

  Carsten Spohr
  • Labor
  • Dialogue
  • Dispute

• I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest and one across the hips. The belt also needed an immovable anchorage point for the buckle as far down beside the occupant’s hip, so it could hold the body properly during a collision. It was just a matter of finding a solution that was simple, effective and could be put on conveniently with one hand.

  

  Nils Bohlin
  • Simple
  • Effective
  • Belt

• Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Solution

• With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Human Nature

• The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Childcare

• There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Productivity
  • Tasks
  • Deadlines

• The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

  

  Nigel Gibson
  • Problems
  • Solution
  • Regime

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