Harley Pasternak Quotes

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

I think being a producer makes you a problem solver, so you kind of go, "Well there's a problem. What do we do? How do we solve it?"

I'm a problem-solver.

I like to consider myself a problem solver. I don't like to spend a lot of time talking about the problem, stressing out or being dramatic about it. I like to try and figure out how I can fix it.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

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

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

My mom was a problem solver.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

I give people ideas on how to solve intractable problems.

It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.