Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
— Brian Tracy
Special Problem Solution quotations
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.

Good design is a matter of discipline.
It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.
Read the Bible for the salvation of your soul, not the solution to your problem.
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems.
When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved
Every problem comes along with it's solution;
the bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony. Cheer up!
Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.

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.
Africa’s story has been written by others;
we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems
Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Time itself is the solution to all problems.
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.
Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.
Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

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.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth.
.. these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

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.
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide.
Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.