#problems

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#answers #direct #energies #excuses #focus

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#affirmative #also #believe #disenfranchised #good

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#best #bring #credit #gave #intelligence

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#could #devices #easily #hard #hard work

Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#every #fantastic #good #him #his

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#fix #just #like #listen #problems

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave god alone. He has enough problems. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#alone #beings #enough #god #held

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure