Allen Klein Quotes - Page 2

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.