Problem Framing Quotes

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

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

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

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

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

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

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

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.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.