Alan Watts Quotes

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

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

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

The way a problem is described is bound to influence the choice of how to solve it.

The only stupidities that are not easily solved are those created by very intelligent men.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

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.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

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.

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

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

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

All life is problem solving

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

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