#solving

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations. ↗

— Neil Peart

#like #marathon #playing #running #rush

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#cooperation #europe #israeli-palestinian #moreover #mother

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#hero #heroine #high #into #involves

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#applying #call #certain #data #his

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#problem-solving #change

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#problem-solving #change

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

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