Yanni Quotes

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

My mom had not worked a day in her life, and then she woke up when I was 15 and found herself with four children, no job, no money. But she set out and made it all OK for us, and from that, I saw that there's no problem that can't be solved.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.