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Source: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

“Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.”

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.”

Thinking Giving Problem Faith Peace Loses Ability Emotion Situation Worry Cold Filled Worried Heat Filling Ruthless Gloom Scrutiny Apprehension

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.”

World Doe Problem Spirit Religion Ability Poverty Trouble Promise Overcoming Enthusiasm No Problem

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.”

People Humans Problem Asks Ability Human Problems

Author:Timothy Keller

“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”

Problem Sound Voice Ability Environment Military Communication Tests Backgrounds Superiors Code Selection Noisy Personnel

Author:M. H. Abrams

“Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.”

Ifs Wells Important Enough Problem Process Ability Importance Painter Subconscious Handicapped

Author:Sergei Bongart

“Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.”

Problem Ability Powerful Brain Exercise Tools Function Impact Mental Health Profound Treatment Most Powerful Cognitive Psychiatric Brain Function

Author:John Ratey

“The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

People Problem Happens Lines Ability Love Is Response Bottom Idiot Bottom Line

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Problem Found Sports Hurt Ability Magic College Higher Exercise Solutions Percent Medicine Average Solve Productivity Intense Bother Sweat Superhero Pills Puddles

Author:Chalene Johnson

“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

People Looks Important Problem School Ability Half Teach Study Teacher Subjects Fronts Students Laughed Classmates

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.”

Ifs Knows Want Important Problem Political Ability Answers Issues Position Scientist Paid Analysts Political Issues

Author:Ian Bremmer

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.”

Real Problem Lying Ability Economy Serious Labor Essence Financial Debt Saving Spheres Factories Bubbles Estates Savings Overhead Bond Market

Author:Michael Hudson

“You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.”

Thinking Men World Way Wells Done Whole Problem Moving Loses Ability Behinds Brain Focus Degrees Perception Behave Tricky Behind You Moving In Whole Picture Multi Tasking Blinkers

Author:Meryl Streep

“I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.”

“In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.”

People Thinking Problem Today Faces Opportunity Difficult Loses Ability Forget Tomorrow Tough Difficult Times Tough Times

Book:Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Source: Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.”

Problem Challenges Ability Deals Overcoming

Author:Jared Leto

“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.”

Ifs Problem Growth Ability Responsibility Forever Our Lives Depends Capacity Personal Responsibility

Book:The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”

Thinking Important Problem Ability Possibility Communication Skills Capacity Solve Critical Collaboration Academic Critical Thinking New Possibilities

Author:Tony Wagner

“There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.”

“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.”

“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Stories Problem Ability Written Car Draws Hollywood Meetings Silly Insane Buying Despise Mechanic Pitching

Author:Jess Walter

“Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"”

Thinking Feels Writing Problem Natural Ability Five Too Much Thousand Opposites Paragraph Natural Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.”

People Thinking Wells Mean Problem Seems Care America Values Actors Ability Fields Concerned

Author:Lauren Bacall

“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Writing Mind Ends Facts Problem Might Left Ability Opinion Events Cry Solutions Paid Solve Bunch Print Comment Blast Clutter Tick

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”

World Humans Use Problem Bigs Ability Data Make Sense Entering Big Problems

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.”

Problem Faces Felt Ability Views Race Existence Doubt Concern Roots Fingers Affection Point Of View Honestly Eloquent Deep Affection

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”

Ifs Problem Hands Ability Interesting Notes Stranded

Book:Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

“If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.”

Ifs Feels Mind Looks Book Done Problem Action Mother Loses Ability Bears Late Instinct Right Thing Look Up Too Late Intuitive Incompetent

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.”

Ifs Real Problem Courses Actors Asks Realizing Ability Acting Talking Fronts Listening Harder Cameras Hardest Assistants Not Talking Retarded

Author:Brett Ratner

“I was really impressed with Naomi [Watts]. She was a producer, and she was doing things that I wasn't really aware of. The way she was able to switch from handling problems to shoot a really difficult scene, I think is a real testament to her true ability.”

Thinking Way Real Problem Able Difficult Ability Scene Producers Impressed Testament Handling Problems

Author:Michael Pitt

“Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish. And my level of fear and anxiety of getting injured is greater than my courage.”

Mind Problem Body Ability Levels Greater Anxiety Accomplish Athletic Injured Athletic Ability

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.”

Children Play Problem Ability Groups Skills Stronger Problem Solving

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.”

Persons Problem Ability Healing Successful Conflict Tests Difficulty Work Out Arise Successful Person

Author:David J. Schwartz

“All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.”

Problem Dream Faces Ability Creativity Solve

Book:The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life

Source: The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life

“The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.”

Stills Matter Problem Ability Practice Students Habit Concerned Method Silent Oneself Instruction Session Scholarship Discussing Attending Imports Scholarly Memorizing

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.”

Way Different Reason Problem Girl Community Ability Boys Importance Gender Solve Backgrounds Coming Out Masculinity Gang Membership Marginalized

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.”

Problem Political Ability Class Economic Truth Is Profound Scales Magnitude Economic History

Author:Hugh Hendry

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.”

“Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.”

Problem Culture Individual Ability Existence Creativity Expression Solutions Something New Solution To A Problem

Author:Betty Edwards

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

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