Problem-solving Quotes

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

- Adam Schlesinger

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.

- Alan Bennett

I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.

- Alastair Reynolds

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

- Albert Bandura

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.

- Alexa Chung

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

- Alexander Alekhine

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

- Alexander Mackenzie

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

- Alexis Carrel

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

- Alveda King

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

- Ambrose Bierce

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

- Anais Nin

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

- Andre Breton

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

- Andrew Wiles

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

- Anish Kapoor

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

- Anthony de Mello

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

- Anthony Foxx

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

- Anthony Lewis

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

- Antony Jay

If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.

- Apollonius of Tyana

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

- Aristotle

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

- Arne Jacobsen

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

- Arundhati Bhattacharya

We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.

- Barry Levinson

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

- Beatrice Webb

Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

- Ben Carson

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

- Bernard Baruch

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

- Bernard DeVoto

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

- Betty Williams

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

- Bianca Jagger

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

- Bill Gates

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

- Bill O'Reilly

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

- Bill Owens

We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

- Bill Pullman

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

- Bill Watterson

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

- Blaise Pascal

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.

- Bob Ainsworth

Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.

- Brian Krzanich

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

- Bruce Davison

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

- Charlie Kaufman

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

- Charlotte Bronte

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

- Christian Lacroix

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

- Coretta Scott King

Temporary solutions often become permanent problems.

- Craig Bruce

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

- Dale Carnegie

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

- Daniel Tammet

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

- Dave Matthews

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

- David Attenborough

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

- David Baker

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

- David Einhorn

Obama has offered no solutions; his Democratic majority in the Senate has failed to produce a budget in 1,200 days; and they have both obstructed the Republicans' proposed remedies.

- David Limbaugh

I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human.

- David Mazouz

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

- David Means

To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.

- David Milch

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.

- Deval Patrick

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

- Donald M. Payne

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

- Donald Trump

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

- Douglas Wilson

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

- E. M. Forster

There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.

- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Edmund Burke

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

- Edward Snowden

The systematic experimental study of reproducible errors of human reasoning, and what these errors reveal about underlying mental processes, is known as the heuristics and biases program in cognitive psychology. This program has made discoveries highly relevant to assessors of global catastrophic risks.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

- Elizabeth Thornton

You have to play the logic of a character.

- Emily Watson

You can make a million excuses for why something didn't go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

- Emily Weiss

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

- Emmanuel Macron

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

- Eric Sevareid

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

- Esther Duflo

I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

- Frances Beinecke

Everyone must understand that you can't demand solidarity when there's a problem and shirk your duties when there are solutions.

- Francois Hollande

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

- Fred Hoyle

If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

- Gabe Newell

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

- Gabriel Marcel

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

- Gene Roddenberry

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

- George Ayittey

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

- George Henry Lewes

Britain can choose, as others are, short term fixes and more stimulus. Or we can lead the world with long-term solutions to long-term problems.

- George Osborne

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

- George Whitefield

Every customer is different, and the travel experience is completely fluid, but the end goal is to find the best solutions.

- Gillian Tans

We need a collective moment where we commit ourselves to long-term solutions.

- Gina Raimondo

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

- Gloria Steinem

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

- Graham Swift

As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs.

- Greg Boyle

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

- Gregory Bateson

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

- Gregory Bateson

I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.

- Hanneli Mustaparta

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

- Harri Holkeri

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

- Harry Graf Kessler

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.

- Heinrich Boll

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

- Henry Rollins

Logic is no answer to passion.

- Herb Caen

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

- Hilary Putnam

My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

- J. D. Vance

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

- Jacque Fresco

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

- Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

- Jacqueline Novogratz

Cities are not problems. They are solutions.

- Jaime Lerner

There are no instant solutions.

- James Callaghan

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

- James Harvey Robinson

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

- James Howard Kunstler

As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

- Jamie S. Miller

I will continue to push for solutions to eliminate reliance on hired guns to provide security in war zones.

- Jan Schakowsky

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.

- Jane Byrne

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

- Jane Chen

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

- Jaron Lanier

All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.

- Jason Blum

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

- Jason Robards

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

- Jean de la Bruyere

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

- Jean Piaget

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

- Jean-Claude Juncker

How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

- Jeannette Rankin

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

- Jeb Bush

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

- Jeb Bush

Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.

- Jens Martin Skibsted

Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.

- Jens Martin Skibsted

The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.

- Jens Martin Skibsted

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

- Jeremy Gilley

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

- Jeremy Rifkin

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

- Jim Ryun

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

- Jody Williams

We believe that the best solutions come from solving your own problem. If you have a real problem, there's likely someone else who can relate. That's how Airbnb was born.

- Joe Gebbia

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.

- John Barrasso

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

- John Collison

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.

- John Cornyn

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

- John Lanchester

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

- John McLaughlin

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

- John T. Chambers

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

- John Zorn

Solutions must be based on compromises.

- Joschka Fischer

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

- Jose Andres

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

- Jose Bergamin

Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

- Joseph Joubert

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan's most successful tools. He'll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

- Joyce Meyer

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

- Julia Butterfly Hill

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

- Julian Casablancas

I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.

- Juliette Lewis

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

- Justin Theroux

Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

- Kat Graham

I seek solutions, not battles.

- Kate Brown

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

- Kathleen Blanco

Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.

- Kathy Ireland

The speakers I value don't just sound intelligent but can boil down complex issues in a clear, understandable way that encourages the public to think about the solutions.

- Kevin Brady

In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.

- Kevin McCarthy

It's time to focus on real solutions that will create jobs and build our economy for real strength and stability - not just for the fortunate few, but for every American.

- Kirsten Gillibrand

Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.

- Kyle Hill

Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality.

- Kyle Hill

The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

- Lars Onsager

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

- Laura Fraser

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

- Leonard Nimoy

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

- Les Wexner

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

- Lewis Carroll

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

- Louis D. Brandeis

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

- Luke Roberts

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

- Ma Yansong

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

- Malcolm Fraser

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

- Margaret Atwood

If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.

- Margrethe Vestager

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

- Maria Mitchell

Elected leaders in government and our men and women in uniform face a range of unprecedented challenges and pressures that demand innovative solutions.

- Marillyn Hewson

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

- Mark Cuban

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

- Martha Plimpton

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

- Martin McGuinness

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

- Martin Shkreli

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

- Marvin Minsky

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

- Marvin Minsky

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

- Mason Cooley

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

- Michael Dell

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

- Michael Shermer

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.

- Michael Showalter

Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.

- Michelle Shocked

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.

- Michelle Yeoh

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

- Mike Pompeo

As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.

- Mike Pompeo

In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!

- Milo Yiannopoulos

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

- Mitski

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

- Mitt Romney

I wouldn't say that dittoheads, as a group, lack the ability to reason. It's just that whenever I run across one, he seems to be at a low ebb in reasoning skills.

- Molly Ivins

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

- Molly Ivins

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

- Mother Angelica

Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

- Muhtar Kent

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

- Nassau William Senior

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

- Neil Gershenfeld

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

- Nicholas Lea

Most people believe, mistakenly, that wealth in a human society has something to do with money, but that's not true. Money is simply a medium of exchange. Prosperity in a human society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems that we create for ourselves.

- Nick Hanauer

When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.

- Nick Nolte

My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that I don't want to stop doing makes you mad, I don't need to be with you. Bye!' And then he'd leave me. Forever.

- Nikki Glaser

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

- Niklaus Wirth

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

- Nina Easton

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

- Norman Cousins

In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.

- Oliver Sim

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.

- Parker Conrad

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

- Parker Palmer

Georgians aren't interested in labels or affiliation, they're interested in solutions. And that begins by making Washington smaller and America bigger!

- Paul Broun

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.

- Paul D. Boyer

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

- Paul Ryan

This is our job as leaders: to offer positive solutions and empower people. Our duty is to tackle our problems before they tackle us.

- Paul Ryan

We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.

- Paul Ryan

Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.

- Paul Samuelson

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

- Paul Zane Pilzer

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

- Peggy Whitson

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

- Pep Guardiola

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

- Peter Greenaway

Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.

- Peter Maurer

The Fourth Industrial Revolution does not just entail risks: it also brings solutions to humanitarian problems.

- Peter Maurer

If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

- Peter Maurer

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

- Pierre Bourdieu

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

- Plato

Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

- Queen Rania of Jordan

We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.

- Rainer Weiss

Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.

- Raja Krishnamoorthi

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

- Ralph Nader

Drama starts where logic ends.

- Ram Charan

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

- Randall Munroe

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.

- Rex Tillerson

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

- Richard Branson

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

- Richard Dreyfuss

Solutions are not the answer.

- Richard M. Nixon

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

- Richard P. Feynman

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

- Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

- Richard P. Feynman

It is up to all of us - the state, Florida's local communities, and the federal government - to work together on long-term solutions to improve the quality of our water.

- Rick Scott

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

- Rick Scott

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

- Rita Mae Brown

If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.

- Rob Portman

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

- Robert B. Laughlin

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

- Robert J. Shiller

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

- Robert M. Pirsig

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

- Robert Mankoff

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

- Robert Zubrin

Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

- Robin S. Sharma

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

- Rodney Frelinghuysen

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

- Roseanne Barr

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

- Rouben Mamoulian

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

- Rudolf Arnheim

We must re-ignite that American spirit in order to create good jobs, to keep America safe from terror, to replace Obamacare with consumer choice solutions, and to secure our borders.

- Ryan Frazier

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

- Samantha Power

My ambition with connectivity is not to fly balloons in the national airspace of other countries, but my dream is to be able to enable the local entrepreneurs to have low-cost connectivity solutions.

- Satya Nadella

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

- Satyajit Ray

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

- Scott Turow

I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.

- Sebastian Thrun

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

- Sidney Poitier

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

- Stanley Crouch

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

- Stephen Cole Kleene

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

- Stephen Cole Kleene

Value Proposition Design is a 'must have' for anyone creating a new venture. It captures the core issues around understanding and finding customer problems and designing and validating potential solutions.

- Steve Blank

Residents expect their state leaders to deliver solutions for the people of their state.

- Steve Bullock

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

- Steve Jurvetson

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

- Steve Jurvetson

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

- Steve Scalise

It's important the sheriff and the D.A. work with the community to realize real-world solutions. If they make decisions in silos, it will fall short.

- Susan Burton

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

- Susana Martinez

I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.

- Tarana Burke

I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.

- Tess Gerritsen

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

- Theodore White

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

These are national problems that require national solutions.

- Thomas Menino

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

- Thomas Sowell

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

- Thomas Sowell

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

- Thomas Szasz

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

- Tim Minear

There's an appetite for advancing conservative solutions and not just talking about them.

- Todd Young

In truth, the 'populist anger' fueling Trump's coalition is fundamentally different from Sanders' 'progressive populism.' The superficial similarities between the two end when they talk about solutions.

- Tom Tancredo

The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.

- Tulsi Tanti

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

- Ulrich Beck

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

- Vernon Howard

I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

- Vicki Lawrence

The bulk of the utility industry today believes that coal and nuclear are the only solutions we have. Nuclear is greener but has the other issues. Coal, they think, can be transformed into the so-called clean coal technologies.

- Vinod Khosla

Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.

- Vinod Khosla

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

- William Cowper

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

- Yolanda Adams