Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

If you don’t understand how problems came to be, how are you going to know how to fix them?

The solution of one problem always brings a few more problems to the surface to be solved, which were hidden underneath the theory of transmission.

We cannot solve a problem until we understand the full extent of the problem.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

In business, you try to solve problems.

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

When you hire a plumber because no hot water is coming out of the kitchen sink faucet, you need to go to the water heater, not the faucet.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

It is one thing to diagnose a problem; it is another to resolve it.