Quips- A collection of sayings that tease all of your emotions. Some are witty, others are thought-provoking and even outrageously funny. Hire a teenager while he still knows everything. There are two great tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want and the other is getting what you want. Some days I feel like a three pound hen trying to lay a four pound egg. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. - Author.

Do you want to laugh? Perhaps I should ask "ya' wanna laugh?" Go to the chapter about "Humor". Ya wanna laugh some more? Go to the chapter about "Senior Humor". Maybe you're the intellectual type who wants something to ponder over? Well, we have chapters for you too. Try "Idioms" or Philosophy". Actually the whole book is something to think about! "In anything funny, look for a truth." "In many truths, one can find humor." About twenty five years ago, or more, the author began to collect famous quotes like Mark Twain's famous, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated." The author's collection quoted everyone from ancient philosophers to modern comedians. They all had or have something important to say. He especially loves the ones called "One Liners". They express in only a minimum of words great thoughts, deep emotions and even hilarity. "Learn to laugh at yourself. Everyone else does." No matter who or what you are this book "All About Life" will give one that needed smile or a realization that someone else went through that very same thing before. Accept this challenge, if you will, to find every possible emotion made humorous, understandable or explained. After all, it is all about life.

Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.

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Stand-up: it's the ultimate solo art form. Yet, behind the scenes, you will increasingly find the shadowy figure of a director. For comics themselves and for those who support them, this is the first book to give the director's perspective on creating and performing stand-up comedy. Drawing on his own experience of directing stand-up alongside speaking to comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing perspective on the creative process, comic persona, writing stand-up, structuring material and delivering a performance. Directors interviewed include Logan Murray, John Gordillo and Simon McBurney, who between them have directed Eddie Izzard, Michael McIntyre, Milton Jones, Lenny Henry and French & Saunders. With a foreword by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and contributions from many other interviewees including Oliver Double (author of Getting the Joke), this is the only book that goes all the way from one-liners to theatre via comedy club sets and full-length shows. Perfect for stand-ups from newbies to pros, students of comedy, academics studying and teaching stand-up and for directors themselves, A Director's Guide to the Art of Stand-up offers hundreds of inspiring practical insights and shows how creating the comedian's highly personal, individual act can be a deeply collaborative process.