Anne Lamott Quotes

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

A difficulty for every solution.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

The design is done when the problem goes away.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

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?"

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

When you have no money, you need invention.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.