“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.” MayProblemNaturalDealsEnvironmentFailingEvolutionBirdResourcesPopulationSolveSelectionNatural SelectionBeavers Book:THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.” IfsWayTryingHelpingProblemAsksDifficultFailingCreatingSolutionsSolveFasterTry AgainDifficult Problems Author:Aza Raskin
“The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.” WayShouldTryingChildrenFactsProblemNaturalFailingSolutionsAbuseRaisesSolveTendenciesChild Abuse Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” ProblemGovernmentThreePlansFailingSolveDecadesPlanningUnemploymentPlanners Author:Ronald Reagan
“Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.” MenImportantProblemAttentionFailingCapacitySolveLackingSeriousness Author:Calvin Coolidge
“All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.” HumansIdeasDifferentSometimesProblemActionEffortPlansFailingMagicSacrificeSolutionsComplexesSolveBulletsComponentsHuman Problems Author:Alan Carr
“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” KnowsHumansSelfProblemRealityActionFacesValuesPassionCoursesBeliefForcePowerfulMoralVisionFailingAchieveDangerJudgmentStandardsUltimateClaimsAimDareSolveSelf ConfidenceFollyRealisticIdealismEconomistCalculations Author:Robert Kennedy
“If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.” IfsMayPastSpiritualNationsMoralFailingCrisisSolveDoomedGreat NationsSpiritual Crisis Author:Billy Graham
“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.” PeopleKnowsBelieveDoeRealSelfProblemBigsHappensTeachForeverFailingNeededApproachOppositesStrategySolveSelf ConfidenceReal LifeNerves Author:Jack Welch
“It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.” IfsTryingProblemFailingPrideSolveWho We AreGet BackProblem SolvingTry Again Author:Mitch McConnell
“In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.” WorldNeedsLongIdeasProblemBigsFailingCome UpSolveCriticalScarcityAfraid To Fail Author:Brené Brown
“I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff. That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.” NeedsGivingMeanLongI CanHardProblemHappensCausesTermCareersWorryGoneFailingAchieveGloryCommitmentResourcesSolveLong TermPushingAcquisitionRunway Author:Michael Abrash
“In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.” WayNeedsWarProblemEconomyDemocracyRecordsFailingRiskHonestConversationElectionFoundationInternationalTrackSolveCriticalGravesVotersEcosystemsDissatisfiedCrumblingTrack Record Author:Jill Stein