Nina Turner Quotes

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

There is no silver bullet. I know people in Washington want grand solutions for everything.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

There are no instant solutions.

I can solve every problem a year later.

Never send interim reports only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must then either obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem.

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

No given measure and no given set of measures will work a perfect cure for any serious evil.

Sometimes problems just have to sit and wait until we can see a solution.

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

There is always time to take more time.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.