Practical Solution Quotes

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

It would be a good idea.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

Our progress toward a wise conclusion will not be improved by dwelling upon the theories.... It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory!

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

By the way, that's a far less expensive solution than other very foolish solutions I've heard. The veterans love it, they love it. But it's a far better solution than anything anybody's heard and its common sense and it's there.The doctors need the business and the private hospitals and public hospitals need the business and they're sitting there, waiting. So we don't have a choice. We have to do that.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

Someone once told me they didn't like taking the lid off the kettle because they'd just lose it in the kitchen, so we made a kettle with an attached lid that you slide. It was in response to that that we made one that did something different.