“By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.” PeopleKnowsWholeSinMissingProveBehaviorSolutionsDeserveStriveCodeServing GodKnowing GodGod's LoveGift From God Book:What's So Amazing about Grace? Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.” KindLittlesHardOpportunityMissingHard WorkWasteSolutionsImportanceMeetingsPreparedIllAll KindsWasting TimeUrgentStrategicSynergy Author:Stephen Covey
“When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard.” WantLongProblemMightJobsHouseHeardMissingComfortConversationSolutionsSolveReleaseEmployeeCleaningDoing MeValveInterruptingHouse Cleaning Author:Rands
“Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."” PeopleWantBelieveMayDoeRealHandsSufferingCausesSinPsychologyMissingEventsSolutionsTrialsExplanationSicknessEldersTribulationTrials And TribulationsHollandRandom Events Author:Daniel K Judd
“One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.” PeopleSometimesReligiousCommonMissingOffersSolutionsPhilosophicalCommon SenseFeaturesPeculiarPhilosophical Questions Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
“We need to be honest with the American people about the problems and the challenges ahead and the solutions that are needed to fix them. And I would argue it's the president who has been missing in action on this front. He knows we have a debt crisis coming. All independent experts show us this. And so he hasn't even given us a budget yet. I mean, the law required that he was supposed to submit a budget the first Monday in February.” PeopleMeanProblemActionPresidentChallengesHonestMissingSolutionsIndependentCrisisArguingBeing HonestSubmitMondayFebruary Author:Paul Ryan
“Although there are some parallels to the problems that we're seeing now and what we say back in the '30s, no period is exactly the same. For us to simply recreate what existed back in the '30s in the 21st century, I think would be missing the boat. We've gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that's gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound.” ThinkingMomentsProblemEconomyMissingSolutionsBoat21st Century Author:Barack Obama
“The earth has continued to change, from rapid climatic changes that have caused the glaciers and the ice sheets to basically bulldoze the landscape and cause species compression in the tropics and cause mass species extinction - you know, all these huge changes. In terms of evolution, every species is doomed to eventual extinction. The natural world is constantly changing. So, to deal with "environmental problems," in quotes, totally misses the issue. That is not the way we want to define our problem if we're going to find our solution.” WorldProblemEarthTermNaturalMissingEvolutionSolutionsEnvironmentalNatural World Author:Gordon Hempton