488 Quotes About Problem-solving

We are called to be God's answer to each other’s needs

The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.

When you feel a weak moment coming on, the key is self-control.

… the problem, and our understanding of it, changes as we tackle it.

I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all is well.

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their eyes pop, as if they’re thinking, ‘Oh, I want to do it.

When Vincent didn’t understand something, he would figure it out. When Frank didn’t understand something, he’d light it on fire.

Every problem has its solution until you give up trying out.