Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There’s a garuda to get airborne.

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself, ‘So what?’ Then, after answering, ask yourself again, ‘So what?’ And then a third time—’So what?’ Chances are you’ll come to realize that...

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

If you ever find yourself in a jam, just take a moment to sit and think; calculate things, look at every angle, and then wonder where all that jam came from.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,

a problem well put is half solved.

Listening and showing you are there for someone is often more important than trying to find a “fix” for a problem. I wish there were more people who practice this.

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It’s this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It’s necessary to have enough to make positive contributions...

We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than...

What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.

Complaining solves nothing but creative problem solving amongst people with a common focus will produce solutions.

Problems are meant to be solved, but unfortunately, a lot of people choose to complain, worry, and cry about them.

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

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn’t so sure.

Look at your heart-flower and smile.You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

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...

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don’t just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.

Life discoveries are lead by an acceptance of mistakes and efforts to correct them.

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.

Why”. !t can help you assess and access your wanderings over the needed span of problem, and to dig out the solutions from depths.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

Wrong way to think about it. Don’t try to figure it out all at once.

Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating....

To fundamentally solve a problem, we must understand it’s cause. In that I mean the chain of actions or circumstances that led to the problem–rather than only the immediate cause, which serves only to place...

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life!

Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. “The whole affair is a mystery to me,” he said. “Who would want to steal anything from me?” “Perhaps a...

You can’t solve problems until you understand the other side.” –Jeffrey Manber