It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.


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JOSE BONO
It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified.
JOSE BONO
These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com...
JOSE BONO
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD
The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD
Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER