“I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.” ThinkingWorldNeedsStoriesProblemTodayMovingOrderPathOffersSolutionsMoving ForwardRealisticDisagreeContemplatingDystopianSteersRight PathEliminating Author:Annalee Newitz
“There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.” DifferentProblemCertainNextSolutionsObsessionCycles Author:Leni Zumas
“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.” ThinkingYearsEndsWholeProblemSecretHappenedInfluenceTenSolutionsFairsIraqEightNineEnormousMantras Author:Seymour Hersh
“I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling.” MeanLittlesMomentsFeelingsProblemRememberWalksClearAirSolutionsChaosBreatheFresh Air Author:Allison Holker
“Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.” WorldWayWantChildrenDifferentProblemSpiritualValuesDifferencesSolutionsAround The WorldSupposed To BeMatesSpiritual LifeHomelessRefugeeSimilarity Author:Surya Das
“The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.” PeopleKnowsImportantProblemLeftSimpleIssuesPolicySeriousSolutionsTweetPopulismSimple Solutions Author:Tony Blair
“There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.” ProblemDifficultSidesBuildingSolutionsPreparedAlliancesYour SideDifficult Work Author:Tony Blair
“In my current work on global warming, I argue that the only apparent solution to the deep problem of climate change would require very large transfers of wealth from rich nations to poor nations, so that the entire world can make the transition to renewable forms of energy as fast as possible.” WorldProblemFormEnergyNationsWealthPoorRichSolutionsClimateClimate ChangeCurrentsArguingGlobal WarmingTransitionTransfersPoor Nations Author:Philip Kitcher
“I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.” PeopleThinkingDifferentProblemOfficeSolutionsCome UpSolveParadigmFallacy Author:Benjamin Carson
“Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.” ProblemUsedPoliticianSolutions Author:Frank Luntz
“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.” IfsIdeasMatterProblemTechnologyComputerSolutionsSolveCustomersMeaningfulProgrammingSoftwareRequirementsShiftingComputer ProgrammingMeasure Of SuccessComputer Software Author:Jeff Atwood
“You have to be flexible enough to realize that, over the course of making a film for three and a half years, things are going to slightly change and drift, as you work out solutions to each problem as they come up.” YearsEnoughProblemFilmThreeCoursesRealizingHalfSolutionsCome UpWork OutFlexibleHalf A Year Author:Duncan Jones
“I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.” FeelsLittlesI CanTwoDifferentProblemViewsRepublicanSolutionsDemocratPoint Of ViewFrustratedDifferent Points Of View Author:Donna Karan
“I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.” ThinkingProblemSeeingFindingsSolutionsInspired Author:Donna Karan
“If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLooksProblemBigsTodayWantedCreativitySolutionsDressesAddressesUrbanWorld Today Author:Donna Karan
“The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.” PeopleNeedsProblemBodyOrderNumbersHugeSolutionsProgramMethodPopulationSolveViolentTreatedPhenomenonMore MoneyExplosionsEcologicalDamsWomen's BodiesDisplacementContraceptivesPopulation Explosion Author:Vandana Shiva
“The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its way out of debt. It thought that if it could subsidize banks lending homeowners enough money to buy houses from people who are defaulting, then the bank balance sheets would end up okay.” PeopleIfsWayEndsEnoughProblemHouseEconomyBalanceSolutionsOkayCrisisDebtReservesSheetsLendingFederal ReserveBalance SheetsHomeowners Author:Michael Hudson
“I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.” PeopleThinkingProblemBigsTogetherFacesLeftResponsibilitySeriousSolutionsWork OutRadicalWorking TogetherInsurgentPopulismBig Responsibility Author:Tony Blair
“Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.” LongEnoughProblemFrontsWillingSolutionsSimplicityClarityClarity Of Thought Author:Dave Morin
“When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my mind and exploring possible alternative solutions: Why this? Why not that? I apply the latest in technology and design to reinvent that product and solve my frustrations.” MindProblemEnjoyTechnologyDesignProductsSolutionsSolveAlternativesEncountersFrustrationWhy NotExploring Author:Tony Fadell
“The solution probably doesn't look like the problem. If we have this propensity to worry, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be angry - focusing on the worry, anxiety, depression, and anger? Probably not gonna be the solution.” IfsLooksProblemWorryAnxietySolutionsAngryAnxiousPropensityAnxiety Depression Author:Moby
“Muslims have never been and never can be so base as to expect any solutions to their problems through terror.” ProblemSolutionsTerror Author:Fethullah Gulen
“I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.” HumansProblemKidsWantedParentWaterHuman BeingsOceanSolutionsHappeningsNegativeImpactDeforestation Author:Don Cheadle
“I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.” ProblemBigsEyeActionStudentsOceanSolutionsScaryDecadesSpokesApathyBlinkReefsObituaryBlink Of An EyeCoral Reefs Author:Nancy Knowlton
“I became a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a solution for the most pressing problems of our times - a solution that begins at the source.” ProblemSourceBirthSolutionsGentleOur TimeFierce Author:Robin Lim
“People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.” PeopleProblemWillingCivilizationSolutionsBusPointingDiscredit Author:Jay Roach
“The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.” PeopleProblemIndustryFindingsSolutionsBlameGrievance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I see problems that can be fixed because I see solutions that are actually occurring.” ProblemSolutionsFixed Author:Paul Ryan
“I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.” BelieveImportantProblemI BelieveNationsHealthySolutionsImportant ThingsIncludingLifestyleHealthy Lifestyle Author:Vladimir Putin
“We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends.” ProblemTogetherIssuesKeysSolutionsTradeJapanTerritoryTreatiesConcludingPeace Treaties Author:Vladimir Putin
“What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.” WorldProblemAmericaLeftCasesTrumpSolutionsClintonBarackSuperpower Author:Rush Limbaugh
“So 2000 to 2008 probably is the last time we had leadership in Washington with any power which had the belief that America is the solution to problems in the world/ America always has been. We've got some things wrong but our motivations and interests have always been aboveboard.” WorldHas BeensProblemLastsAmericaMotivationBeliefInterestSolutionsLast TimeSolution To A Problem Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.” IfsProblemIndividualGoalAttentionSituationCreativityCreativeSeeingAchieveSolutionsAspectIndividualityThinkerRelevantProblem SolvingDetachedExclusion Author:Mary Henle
“It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.” PeopleProblemScienceHigherSolutionsEffectivenessSolution To A Problem Author:Roger Lewin
“What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.” ProblemEyeCausesBrainSolutionsAbsorptionPhotons Author:Hermann von Helmholtz
“It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.” WayLooksHardProblemTrumpSolutionsHopefulOffering Author:Jane Mayer
“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.” HumansFactsProblemFacesChoicesHeavenCommonSeaSolutionsPhilosophicalHonestlySillySignificanceFloatingFree ChoiceJellyfishDeep Philosophical Author:Allen W. Wood
“I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.” IfsThinkingDoePhilosophyProblemHappensPositionMessagesSolutionsPhilosopherFree WillImaginaryMessengersUnwelcome Author:Allen W. Wood
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood
“Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.” PeopleIfsProblemGivenSolutionsResourcesDrivingMarketplaceCheaperSolution To A Problem Author:Dean Kamen
“Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.” BelieveProblemFoundI BelievePovertyEconomyMassSolutionsIndiaMeaningfulExpandingFramework Author:Manmohan Singh
“The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.” NeedsProblemSolutions Author:Jill Stein
“When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by this time I'm an over achiever, a pretty good student, etc. And he said I have the answer to your problems. I have the solution to your pain. And he held up this book. It's a bible. I didn't know what it was.” KnowsYearsLooksSaidBookProblemEyePainHouseAnswersStudentsSolutionsEtcUnclesAchieverGood Students Author:Paula White
“I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.” MayBookDoneWholeProblemFilmGirlSimpleHealingNeededSolutionsFilledTrainFrightenedAlcoholicsSobrietyStrideMonologuesAlcoholics AnonymousSimple Solutions Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today.” SometimesFactsProblemTodayAbleSolutionsPerceiveInterconnectednessBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.” WayProblemMightTogetherTechnologySolutionsGoogleBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.” IfsWorldWantProblemKnowingSolutions Author:Dale Jamieson
“If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.” IfsProblemConsciousnessSolutionsHistoricalDimensions Author:Dale Jamieson
“The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people.” PeopleWritingDifferentProblemFoundStudentsSolutionsEncountersFascinatingThinkerDifferent Peoples Author:Emily Barton
“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.” PeopleWorldNeedsCountryWholeProblemJobsCompanyEconomySolutionsResourcesProgramBasesMajorityDemocraticMeetingsProfitPermanentFuelMassiveTransitionNew WorldOwnershipFossilsInfrastructureFossil FuelRotting Author:Kshama Sawant