Leo Szilard Quotes

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

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

I have been an editor at Commentary for a number of years and the thing that we all agree about is that we are much better at identifying problems than at solving them.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

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?"

You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It's a positive-and-negative thing: you can't have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it.

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.

You read something and you know it's not there yet. There's a little section here that... this part's good but that is a little not, it doesn't quite work. That doesn't quite work. That's easy. To say, "OK, now, this is what I think will fix it." That's harder. And most people can tell you what's wrong with something. Very few people can say what they would do to fix it.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

My brand of leadership, which is very focused on bringing people together, solving problems - it's what I have always tried to do - just had a hard time being as powerfully compelling in the campaign as I think it has been in previous years for other candidates.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.