Top 1200 Learn To Laugh At Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.

People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

People love to laugh together. Like when I'm at home and I'm watching shows, I don't laugh out loud, but if I'm in a crowd and everyone is into it...

I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.

One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.

People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

My philosophy in life is just to laugh as much as possible through the good and the bad - to laugh at the tragedies as well as the triumphs.

Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free.

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.

Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

You asked me my favorite question: What happened and what did you learn from being under contract to MGM? And the answer is I know how to make movies. I understand how to do that. I've been doing that my whole life. It's just easier to raise the money yourself and then hire yourself. It's possible if you reduce your own budget a little.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you do fall, you'll learn everything. If you become successful, you'll learn a bit, but if you fail, you'll get to learn everything. Success is the dumbest teacher, not the other way around

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.

Let yourself feel good again, laugh with friends, have fun. Living your life to the full is not betrayal of a memory but fulfillment of a promise to someone who would want only the best for you.

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

I'm the youngest of four in a large, exhibitionist family. The only way to get attention was to throw yourself off the top of a ladder - as one of my cousins used to do - or make people laugh.

If something awkward happens, laugh. I don't think I've ever dated a guy who couldn't laugh - even in bed, during intimate times.

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

When you're uncomfortable, that's when you learn something new about yourself.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.