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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
Made
,
Problem
,
Energy
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
Leadership
,
Failure
,
Care
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Problem
,
Anyone
,
Head
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
Life
,
Play
,
Big
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller
Yourself
,
Decision
,
Problem
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Control
,
Everyone
,
Means
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White
Best
,
Happy
,
Game
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Problems
,
Roots
,
Hacking
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
Sheikh Hasina
Government
,
Trying
,
Problems
Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
Neil Peart
Show
,
While
,
Playing
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor Adorno
Thought
,
Problem
,
Problems
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor
Art
,
Question
,
Value
We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. Scott Peck
Life
,
Cannot
,
Problems
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Zedong
Long
,
May
,
Problem
I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.
Madeleine Albright
Strength
,
Different
,
Trying
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Jim DeMint
Time
,
Hope
,
Become
And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.
Chris Christie
Waiting
,
Someone
,
Political
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
Toni Morrison
Single
,
Problems
,
Sense
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Benjamin Carson
Long
,
Silence
,
Enough
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
Ray Kurzweil
Successful
,
Person
,
Learned
When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
Danica McKellar
Feeling
,
Brain
,
Study
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
Peter Singer
Future
,
Society
,
America
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck
Real
,
Problems
,
Tell
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.
Jonathan Ive
Trying
,
Problem
,
Become
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
Laura Linney
Life
,
Help
,
Everything
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan
Corruption
,
Problem
,
Big
Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
Conrad Hall
Problems
,
Worked
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann
Good
,
Help
,
Nothing
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
Marc Faber
Government
,
Crisis
,
Object
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
John Bolton
Problem
,
Global
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