#solution

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. ↗

— John Peers

#nature #problem #solution

When I solve a problem, I do not think about beauty. But when I have solved it, if it is not beautiful, I know that it is wrong. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#solution #beauty

I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#business

The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#business #business-advice #business-start-up #chapter #dispute

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#death #freedom #death

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. ↗

— Sophocles

#makes #men #nothing #pledge #reflection

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states. ↗

— George Soros

#because #create #democracy #democratic #governments

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#across #back #board #borders #choose

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#art #constructive #deal #everyone #get