Gabriel Schoenfeld Quotes

It is one thing to diagnose a problem; it is another to resolve it.

One of the fastest ways to find the solution to an issue or challenge you are facing is to ask the right questions.

I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

Asking the right questions is half the solution to any problem.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

When we see something as a problem, we have to try and solve it and the best way is generally through education.

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.

You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have hundreds or thousands of ways you can approach it.

The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

Questions matter. In business, remarkable performers are brilliant at getting to the right question: the one that speeds them to the place they need to get to and offers them the missing piece they need to find.

The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.