There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are. — John Von Neumann
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. — Laurence J. Peter
Focus on problems that cannot be solved today at all. — Jensen Huang
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. — Ralph Marston
the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems. — Howard Raiffa
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie
A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. — Shigeru Miyamoto
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. — Lyndon B. Johnson
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems. — Henry Ford
Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them. — Cardi B
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. — Erno Rubik
Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come. — Woody Allen
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. — Bertrand Russell
Any solution to a problem changes the problem. — R. W. Johnson
Problems are good, as long as you solve them quickly. — Meg Whitman
Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.
Simple Solutions To Complex Problems Quotes
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
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution. — Anton Chekhov
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to undrstand. We listen to reply.
Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions. — Steve Herbert
I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems. — Jeb Bush
Complex Problems Quotes
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony of Padua
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living. — Joseph Pilates
Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer. — Kim Joon
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. — Alice Childress
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi
Be selective in your battles, don't make every problem a war.
The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea. — Marty Neumeier
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. — Eugene Wigner
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. — Christopher Alexander
Complex Life Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay
Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports. — Sandra Postel
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex. — Yvon Chouinard
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves. — Jane Jacobs
If it can be solved, theres no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. — Hamlin Garland
If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression. — Robert M. Sapolsky
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. — Walt Disney
Problem Solver Quotes
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. — Booker T. Washington
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.' — Carol S. Dweck
You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility. — Gurbaksh Chahal
Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between. Count your blessings, not your problems.
The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich. — Robert Kiyosaki
Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators. — Robert Ringer
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. — Walter Mosley
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.
Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly. — Scott E. Page
Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers. — John Maeda
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. — Ben Horowitz
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Complex Systems Quotes
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. — Russell L. Ackoff
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. — Ivan Pavlov
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. — William Gibson
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. — Jurgen Habermas
We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it. — Roger Penrose
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built. — Niklaus Wirth
If you only focus on your problems, that's all you'll ever see.
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred. — Michael Behe
What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. — Murray Gell-Mann
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. — Pat Conroy
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue. — David Horowitz
Mathematical Problems Quotes
It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way. — George Polya
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him. — Emanuel Lasker
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. — Andrew Wiles
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution,
Bitcoin is a solution out of that problem [money printing]. It’s a system change. — Jeff Booth
Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. — James Clerk Maxwell
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done. — Israel Nathan Herstein
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. — James C. Maxwell
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution. — David Hilbert
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya
Difficult Problems Quotes
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — James A. Lovell
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. — Jim Lovell
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education. — Victor Papanek
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. — Denis Waitley
I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to. — Julia Alvarez
When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Problem Solving Quotes
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers — Lev S. Vygotsky
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. — Michelle Obama
I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth. — Steven Biko
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein
Complexes Quotes
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect — Frantz Fanon
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. — Michel Foucault
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex — Albert Einstein
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order. — Jane Jacobs
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality. — Kim Nam-joon
A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you! — Billy Connolly
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. — Steve Jobs
I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one. — Steven Wright
Real Problems Quotes
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems. — John Dewey
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile. — William Arthur Ward
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. — Arthur Miller
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard J. Codey
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. — Richard Codey
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society. — Vikram Sarabhai
Innovation is not about grand visions, it’s about solving real problems. — Jensen Huang
Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power. — James Brown
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes. — Russell L. Ackoff
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find. — Clayton Christensen
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. — Helen Keller
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. — Dave Barry
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch. — Donella Meadows
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme. — Herbert Simon
It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. — Jimmy Carter
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties. — Fernando J. Corbato
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution. — Steve House
Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems — Douglas Engelbart
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it. — Ralph Marston
Storyboarding is what I call an "idea landscape" - one that can help unleash creativity, improve communication, and identify practical solutions to complex problems. The beauty of storyboarding is that ideas from an entire team are harnessed, not just those from the extroverts or vocal members. — Bill Capodagli
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. — Elliot W. Eisner
We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features. — Sergey Brin
Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions. — Amitai Etzioni
We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change. — Edward Mazria
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. — Mark Zuckerberg
I often hear from new graduates that it's better to wait until you have more experience.... But I'm a big believer in the power of inexperience.... The world needs you before you stop asking naive questions and while you have the time to understand the true nature of the complex problems we face and take them on. — Wendy Kopp
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis. — Robert Jay Lifton
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps. — Bill Gates
I was a street kid, basically. But really, Mexico City has always been this big, complex monster of a city that has always had real problems and needs, and I've always found my way through it in different ways. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve — Daisaku Ikeda
I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff. — Immortal Technique
Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity — Theodosius Dobzhansky
For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us. — Harlan Cleveland
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