Jody Williams Quotes

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

The problem with this world is not enough problem solvers. So, if you become a problem solver you become rich.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough--you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic.

Any plan is better than no plan.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

The game changes so quickly, and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

When you get down, your game plan changes a lot and what you're trying to do is eliminated.

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.