“The smaller trips are useful in between the big trips: they help me gain new skills and experiences, they solve a perpetual case of cabin fever, and they are accommodating to an ambitious public speaking schedule and to some private guiding.” HelpingBigsCasesSkillsGainsSolveHelp MeAmbitiousPerpetualSchedulesFeverPublic SpeakingCabinsNew Skills Author:Andrew Skurka
“Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.” MayProblemResponsibilityAcceptingFatePerspectiveEthicsGainsSolveAppealsPersonal Responsibility Author:Noel Tichy
“As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.” ProblemIndividualAbilityGainsSolveMature Author:Chuck Noll
“From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.” ProblemGovernmentPoliticalGainsProgramVoteHeavySolveDuesFuelPyramidsWheatShortagePolitical PowerMazesGasolineRefiningEthanol Author:Robert Prechter
“Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.” ThinkingWantNeedsShouldCountryProblemMightTogetherAmericaUsedNationsGreaterPositionGainsAdvantageGoldSolveEnormousSolePartnershipGlobesUtopiaSuperpowerGold RushNew Position Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.” LifeSelfProblemAbleActionPastSpiritualIndividualResultsCompassionBenefitsGainsForgivingSolveIgnorantMotivatedOur ActionsConvenience Author:Dalai Lama