“Humor comes from self-confidence.”
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“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”
“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.”
“An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.”
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
“Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.”
“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”
“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.”
“Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.”
“If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.”
“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.”
“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.”
“I've got a great sense of humor.”
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
“It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.”
“I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.”
“There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
“A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.”
“There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.”
“A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.”
“I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.”