488 Quotes About Problem-solving

Advertising is far more than just a communications industry. It's a problem-solving industry that also teaches you about life, how it encourages you to focus your thinking and produce something of genuine value. Why? Because that will make the advertising task so much easier. You're not equipped with a unique set of insights and experiences across a broad range of markets, allowing you to bring clarity and inspiration to anything you wish to produce.

Don’t throw good ideas away until you’ve considered all of your options.

Don't give a permanent solution to a temporary situation.

As a leader, you have the power to ask questions that can provoke self-examination, creative thinking, and problem solving in the other person!

Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.

Go, get some work. Keeping yourselves busy could solve many problems.

Be the solution, not the pollution.

We’ll never solve the problems we don’t talk about.

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise us. We become beggars for our problems, asking numerous people for an opinion. So often, we refuse to relax until a problem is fixed, only to discover our inability to relax was most of the problem.