Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.

Problems are cured by facing their cause.

There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.

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

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.

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

We fix symptoms but almost never deal with the underlying cause. We put out fires but we don’t prevent them.

We keep saying, 'No more 'band aid' solutions.'

If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit, then hopefully there will be some sort of snowball effect that will be bigger and bigger.' I'm much more in favor of the top-down approach to problem-solving.

When you keep un-bundling various aspects of a social problem, you can arrive at a very basic, common space.

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

The fundamental belief of CoreCause is to focus on a preventative rather than recovery stand point. Most of the worlds crises are the effects of a 'core cause' that if addressed would solve the problem entirely.

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

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.