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Problem-solving Quotes

"If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner"

"The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits."

"Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does"

"Our dreams can teach us instruct us confuse us sometimes I think they're even in the process of solving problems for us before we are consciously aware of them"

"I want to see if I can. I don’t know if I can. I want to find out. I want to see. I’m going to do what I always do; I’m going to break it down to its smallest form, smallest detail, and go after it. Day by day, one day at a time."

"The main functions of intelligence are: to invent solutions where there are none, to create orders where it is chaos, to simplify where it is complexity, to establish connectedness where things are otherwise disconnected"

"Remember that you are looking for the best answer not simply the best answer that you can come up with yourself"

"The problem with complex systems is that we often only understand them retrospectively"

"Good leaders identify distinct paths and approach the same goal with different strategies"

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"

"Seeing the world differently can inspire solutions even when resources are scarce"

"I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution."

"Start with the premise that the worst has happened to you and work backward."

"I think the most important discipline I learned from poker was the method of decision making."

"In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well"

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