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“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Done Order Fall Stuff Laughing Subjects Willing Being The Best New Things

Author:Laird Hamilton

“A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.”

Knows Men Doe Eye Able Laughing Wise Subjects Exercise Sacred Wit Offended Solemn Commonplace

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.”

Children Today Father Fear Laughing Subjects Dragons

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.”

People Should Laughing Subjects Cry Inspired Making People Laugh

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Hard Next Interest Laughing Minutes Subjects Ten Jokes Twenties Catholicism

Author:George Meyer

“Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.”

Ifs Writing Wells Long Might Term Laughing Subjects Jokes Deserve Tables Rational Long Term Ads Bias

Author:Michael Schur

“When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?”

Knows Way Wells Heart Light Remember Spiritual Challenges Attitude Situation Laughing Subjects Upset Do You Know Tides Feathers Projection Whim Poisonous Spiritual Beings Caprice

Author:Alan Cohen

“I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.”

Way Used Laughing Saws Doors Subjects Weight Size Stuck Chairs

Author:Roscoe Arbuckle

“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Artist Values Dark Audience Laughing Failing Subjects Missing Jokes Faults Work Out Comedian Edgy

Author:Anthony Jeselnik