Solutions Quotes

• We would like you to reach the place where you're not willing to listen to people criticize one another... where you take no satisfaction from somebody being wrong... where it matters to you so much that you feel good, that you are only willing to think positive things about people... you are only willing to look for positive aspects; you are only willing to look for solutions, and you are not willing to beat the drum of all of the problems of the world.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • World
  • Good
  • Problem

• When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.

  

  David Bentley
  • Kind
  • Problem
  • Forget

• We are in talks and there are other solutions, much more of a compromise than those which were in the parliament. One has to find a solution somewhere in between. There are many ideas, I hope we can work out a solution that would be acceptable.

  

  Andrzej Duda
  • Solutions
  • Between
  • Acceptable

• We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat up, all ears. "Bells!" "What?" Lend and I asked at the same time. "Get her a kitty collar with bells on it. That way you can hear her coming and get someplace where you won't be hurt by collapsing immediately into sleep.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Problem
  • Mean
  • Sleep

• History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • History
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

  

  Nicholas Negroponte
  • Education
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions.

  

  Andrew Harvey
  • Experience
  • Solutions
  • Wholeness

• I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.

  

  Karl-Henrik Robert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Organization

• At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients.

  

  Mike McGavick
  • World
  • Risk
  • Listening

• Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

  

  Cary Sherman
  • Approach
  • Resistance
  • Legislation

• I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Kind
  • Ocean
  • Taxes

• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Solutions

• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  

  Ellis Paul Torrance
  • Creativity
  • Problems
  • Information

• I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

  

  Alvin Lustig
  • Problems
  • Exist
  • Solutions

• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Gay

• I talk to friends who get their feelings hurt when they read Twitter mentions. I have an amazing solution - don't read Twitter mentions.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Hurt
  • Feelings
  • Solutions

• We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Humans

• Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Force
  • Leaders
  • Solutions

• The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!

  

  Wesley K. Wark
  • Energy
  • Office
  • Climate

• When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Engineering
  • Easier
  • Bureaucracy

• We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Problem
  • Moments
  • Refugee

• People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Problem
  • Questions

• I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Consumers

• Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Problem
  • Commitment
  • Judging

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