488 Quotes About Problem-solving

In the short term, it requires the same amount of work to bail your boat as it does to plug the hole. In the long-term, there's no contest.

The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.

Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace novel solutions. People’s lack of imagination prevents them from comprehending the significance of an innovative idea.

Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you.

Have your one good cry, pick your chin up, smile, and move on to the positive.

Don't fail to try because this is how winners roll.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude.