Quotes about Innovative Problem-solving

Practicing little bets frees us from the expectation that we should know everything we need to know before we begin.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

Even in the most difficult of circumstances, there are some leading solutions.

Well, listen, anger doesn't get anything done, so you have to find out: How do you make it work? That's why I was always maniacal about transforming every problem into a puzzle which I can solve. I can solve a puzzle—a problem just stresses me out.

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

David Kord Murray, a former rocket scientist42 who worked on projects for NASA and later became the head of innovation at Intuit, made a study of connective creativity in his book Borrowing Brilliance. According to Murray, "The nature of innovation [is that] we build new ideas out of existing ideas." Murray cites Einstein, Walt Disney, George Lucas, and Steve Jobs as prime examples of innovators who "defined problems, borrowed ideas, and then made new combinations.

Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the wall. He threw it on the ground behind him and kept running. "Bread crumbs?" Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. Such odd glimpses of his past had almost stopped surprising him. "Bread crumbs," Minho replied. "I'm Hansel, you're Gretel.

Stamina and determination along with creativity are needed in overcoming seemingly impossible difficulties in research and other challenges in life.

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

When we were told it's impossible, we knew it's the right way to be done.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

Most times problems are not solved with more money. It usually takes innovation." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Be solution oriented not problem oriented.Problems is limited but solutions are unlimited.