Top 1200 Problem Child Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well - or felt like I did because I performed for them so much. I studied a lot about the child audience, about theater. So it was naturally a place that I gravitated to.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

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?"

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.

To bring up a child well, all a parent needs to do is be extremely honest with the child.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

I have a reading problem and it's hard for me to read books. But I had no problem with the 'Emerald Forest' script.

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

I wouldn't even call myself a former child star. I was a child actor; there's a difference.

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.

. . . it is interesting to note that the original problem that started my research is still outstanding - namely the problem of planning or scheduling dynamically over time, particularly planning dynamically under uncertainty. If such a problem could be successfully solved it could eventually through better planning contribute to the well-being and stability of the world.

I don't think there's ever a silver bullet to any problem. There are always several answers and solutions to a problem.

Bernie is a problem Hillary can't figure out how to solve, perhaps because he's not the problem. She is.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.