Dorothea Brande Quotes

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

If you get the question right, if you really define it, then the answers are just sitting there waiting for you. And it's something a little different than people usually think.

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

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity