Allen Klein Quotes - Page 2

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

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Problem, Picture Frames

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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

  Allen Klein

  Adults, World, Lessons

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

  Allen Klein

  Children, Toys, Boxes

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• 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?

  Allen Klein

  Running, Garden, Yards

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Mind, Attention, Study

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

  Allen Klein

  Thinking, Attention, Want

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

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Years, Sometimes

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Upset, Important

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Ties, Helping

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

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Gratitude, Demise, Teach

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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

  Allen Klein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Power

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

  Allen Klein

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Perspective, Important

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  World, Financial, Landmarks

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Mean Girls, Jobs, Humor

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• 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.

  Allen Klein

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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

  Allen Klein

  Humor, September 11, September

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