To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The first and best way to say 'no' to anyone is, 'How am I supposed to do that?' Now the other side actually has no idea as to the number of things you've done with them at the same time. You conveyed to them you have a problem.
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.
I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem.
Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.
Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.
The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.
When you pass a law you don't solve the problem. You state the problem.
Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.
