“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.” MadeStoriesVoiceTermDarkWorryRecordsPiecesTroubleHeardHeroDrugPrisonPreparedBackgroundsComebackMy HeroSpoken WordHerons Author:Will Hermes
“Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.” IfsTroubleSurvivalPreparedPreparation Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.” RunningTurnsTroublePreparedCornersThis Day Book:Daddy was a Number Runner Source: Daddy was a Number Runner
“You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then-whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.” ThinkingWorldLittlesEndsHardDoneForeverStudySawsTroubleHard WorkBluePreparedChaosChanging Your LifeAxes Author:James Michael
“My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.” IfsSaidUseGreaterTroubleBiggerPreparedHandleValleysGrandmaMy GrandmaBigger Better Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.” Has BeensEndsHardLyingStrongTroublePreparedLeavingSeedsSoilExpensesIdleLawnsBlown AwayCroquet Author:Bee Dawson
“The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.” PeopleSometimesHeavenSportsFateTroubleHeroMercyAdversityPreparedEaseEnlightenedTaoismStrideUnfathomableSuppressing Author:Zicheng Hong