Andrew Weil Quotes

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.

A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

People who solve problems are happier.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

Throwing money at problems never solved anything!

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules