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Quotes about Offering Solutions

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
~ Wendell Berry
Whiners feel helpless and overwhelmed by an unfair world. Their standard is perfection, and no one and nothing measures up to it. But misery loves company, so they bring their problems to you. Offering solutions makes you bad company, so their whining escalates.
~ Rick Brinkman
It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
~ Jacque Fresco
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread. Marketers offer solutions, opportunities for humans to solve their problems and move forward.
~ Seth Godin
materia sentimental, princesita —solía decir César—, no hay que ofrecer nunca consejos ni soluciones... Sólo un pañuelo limpio en el momento oportuno». Y fue lo que hizo
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.
~ Bob Briner
Hegelian dialectic—a psychological tool used to manipulate the masses. In this case, you create a problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution. What people historically fail to realize, though, is that those offering the solution are the same people who caused the problem in the first place. They also fail to realize that no matter what the solution is, it always ends up providing its creators with more power.
~ Brad Thor
I think it's always easier to sit on the outside and act as if you have the best solution.
~ Jay-Jay Okocha
Our dreams are little stories or puzzles that we must solve to be free, Sebastian said. He was reading out loud from Wilson's notebook. My dream is me offering me a solution to the conundrum of my life. My dream is me offering me something that I need and my responsibility to myself is to try to understand what it means. Our dreams are a thin curtain between survival and extinction.
~ Miriam Toews
Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.
~ TEDDY ROOSEVELT
I think the problems with comedians that are political, and there are some brilliant ones, are the ones that offer no solutions. Not that there's a moral obligation for a comic to fix things, but I like to see a comic that's upset about something and offer a solution. It can be a funny solution. I like to see the thought process.
~ Kyle Kinane
My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
~ Daniel Gilbert
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
~ Wendell Berry
What I mean by this is that it is natural to want to demonstrate our competence, to show our patients that we have something to offer. This inclination can get in the way of maintaining enough reserve to let people make their own discoveries and come up with their own solutions to the problems in their lives.
~ Unknown