I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow

Tags: science psychology temptation assumptions hammer instrumentalism problem-solving

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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Malcolm Forbes

Tags: problem-solving

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Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.

Piet Hein

Tags: problems problem-solving

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If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Albert Einstein

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If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.

Susan Del Gatto

Tags: procrastination choices problem-solving stress-management-maintenance

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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

Tags: problem-solving diligence

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As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?'

Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

Agatha Christie

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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.

Sun Tzu

Tags: inspirational music creativity colors diversity invention innovation problem-solving idic

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Some people do polarizing the religion against science.
I use both to solve a problem with two different kind of approach.

Toba Beta

Tags: science religion different problem-solving approach polarize

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Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to me," he said. "Who would want to steal anything from me?"
"Perhaps a thief...?" ventured Julius.

Henry Winterfeld

Tags: humor crime problem-solving

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