If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.
Interpretation
Using humor can be a way to gauge someone's character, especially when they're struggling.
In this quote, Michael J. Fox suggests that humor can be a litmus test for assessing the positivity or negativity of a person's attitude. If someone cannot appreciate jest, it may indicate they are dealing with deeper issues, thus reminding us to exercise patience and understanding towards individuals who may be experiencing tough times.
In practice
During a team building event, to lighten the mood when tensions rise.
I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.
There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes_x000D_ and best friends become strangers, word up
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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