“SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.” TogetherEnergySpeakAbilityTroubleBandMusicianOriginalsSingersLoadImpressedSongwritersArrangementsSinger SongwritersHighlightsDexterity Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.” WorldDoeProblemSpiritReligionAbilityPovertyTroublePromiseOvercomingEnthusiasmNo Problem Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.” NeedsGuyAbilityTroublePatheticOverrated Author:Nora Ephron
“He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.” FirstsMayAbleAbilityTroubleDangerBuildingFoundationLaysArchitect Book:The Prince Source: The Prince
“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.” HumansLooksEndsEyeSpiritGoalGrowthCommunityAbilityRaceEmotionTroubleFeetCenturyIdentityDrawsOrganizationDifficultyManageMaturityHuman RaceDesperateAdolescence20th CenturyRapidsUncontrollableFalteringRapid GrowthSearch For Identity Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsTwoAbilityTroubleSafeDemandLaborTragedyLuckBrilliantAbsenceGutsPessimismSmarterRecognizingLive WellHappy People Book:Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story Source: Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
“Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress” AbleActionMovingCoursesAbilityDecisionSituationProgressTroubleMoving ForwardOutcomesMotiveReasoningContemplatingInabilityAttemptingCautiousResistingProcrastinatingErodePostponingSummoning Author:Samuel Richardson
“The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.” WayAbilityMoralTroubleMinutesTragedyResponseDinnerLimitationPerceiveDistinctionCosmosBroadsSecondsEnginesVolumeCheeseEpicScopeShrinksSauceMenus Book:Time and the Art of Living Source: Time and the Art of Living
“If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.” IfsFeelingsNaturalAbilityActingStruggleTroubleGenuineNatural Ability Author:Guo Xiang