“Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Variant: Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions.
1960s, Family Planning - A Special and Urgent Concern (1966)
“Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Variant: Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions.
“The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution.”
David Deutsch book The Fabric of Reality
Source: The Fabric of Reality (1997), Ch. 2
Context: The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation—the only one that is tenable—of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) American psychologist
Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 269; Cited in: Robert R. Holt, Sigmund Freud (1989) Freud Reappraised: A Fresh Look at Psychoanalytic Theory, p. 148.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
On Israel, America and AIPAC (2007)
Context: The Palestine problem does not have a purely military solution. Military superiority is necessary for Israel's national security, but it is not sufficient. The solution has to be political, as President Clinton recognized.
Lee Smolin (1955) American cosmologist
"Loop Quantum Gravity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.”
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Announcement of the America 2000 Education Strategy (18 April 1991) What Work Requires of Schools Pg 2 http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/whatwork/whatwork.pdf.