Allen Klein
Allen Klein
Allen Kleinwas an American businessman, music publisher, writers' representative, filmmaker and record label executive, most noted for his tough persona and aggressive, innovative negotiation tactics, many of which established higher industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorporated. Klein revolutionized the income potentials of recording artists, who previously had been routinely victimized by onerous record company contracts. He first scored massive monetary and contractual windfalls for Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen, one-hit rockabillies of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
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.
Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.
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.
There are no language barriers when you are smiling.
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.
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
We have made demands to Castle Village, and I have had conversations about paying the city expenses, ... I've been patient in not filing a lawsuit.