Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It's actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

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

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Genius is patience.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

If you find a solution with the Cube, it doesn't mean you find everything. It's only a starting point. You can work on and find something else: you can improve your solution, you can make it shorter, you can go deeper and deeper and collect knowledge and many other things.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.