“We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.” NeedsMovingResponsibilityAcceptingStudyEconomicDevelopmentSolutionsMoving ForwardBoldnessEducation SystemEconomic DevelopmentCenterpieces Author:Christine Gregoire
“In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.” BelieveI BelieveAcceptingHonestSolutionsShadowChosenWelcomeCabinets Author:Edward Heath
“Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.” MayTwoWisdomFormPoliticsHoursResponsibilityAcceptingEconomyHigherDemandApproachSolutionsCapitalismLaborPropertyUnionsGrantedRadicalPermanentLiberalismInsecurityDivisionWagesUnnaturalPensionLabor Union Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.” MeanProblemWishAcceptingConditionsAcceptanceReadySolutionsComplexesSolveAttemptingEscaping Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.” ThinkingTryingDoeSimpleAcceptingStruggleConflictSolutionsTragedyConstantComplexityMatureSomberConstant StruggleSimple Solutions Book:Letters Home Source: Letters Home
“When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.” ThinkingTryingProblemFightingAcceptingSolutionsPatientSeekingDenyAriseCommitOpeningAcknowledgeResolutionBe PatientAdvisable Book:Zen in the Martial Arts Source: Zen in the Martial Arts
“To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.” ShouldLittlesPersonsTwoProblemYoungDifficultAcceptingYouthOffersSolutionsHarmSuperficialMaximsDifficult ProblemsCredo Author:Bertrand Russell
“I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.” IfsMenWorldWantLooksCan DoAcceptingSolutionsDirtyDirty Work Author:Charles Bukowski
“I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But given the grimmest reality, I feel the grimmest facts are the real facts, the true facts: that you're born, you die, you suffer, it's to no purpose, and you're gone forever, ever, ever, and that's it.” ThinkingFeelsTryingRealReasonFactsRealityJobsPurposeArtistSufferingDiesGivenBornAcceptingGoneForeverSolutionsTrue Fact Author:Woody Allen
“Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.” IfsYearsFirstsTodayEffortAcceptingSolutionsFlowBillsOilBarrelsCoastalAnwr Author:John Olver
“The invisible hand is not perfect. Indeed, the invisible hand is a little bit arthritic ... I'm a believer in free markets, but I think we need to be less naïve. We need to accept that markets give us pretty good solutions, but occasionally they will lock in something inferior.” ThinkingNeedsGivingLittlesHandsBitsPerfectAcceptingLittle BitSolutionsBelieverInvisibleLocksInferiorsFree MarketNot PerfectInvisible Hand Author:W. Brian Arthur
“The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.” FactsStoriesDifferencesAcceptingMysteryWillingReaderDemandSolutionsFundamentalsGhostEffectivenessGhost Stories Author:Bennett Cerf
“If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.” PeopleIfsGivingAcceptingSolutionsExcuse Author:Benjamin Carson