Implementation Funny Quotes

there are restraining cuffs on each corner. Above it is an expansive iron grid suspended from the ceiling, eight-foot square at least, and from it hang all manner of ropes, chains, and glinting shackles. By the door, two long, polished, ornately carved poles, like spindles from a banister but longer, hang like curtain rods across the wall. From them swing a startling assortment of paddles, whips, riding crops, and funny-looking feathery implements.

Reframe obstacles into challenges and the stress will dissolve completely. For instance, an embarrassing moment at work can seem funny when put in a long-term frame. When we change the frame we change the meaning. Was it a waste of time or was it a valuable lesson? Did you lose it all or did you get a fresh start? Reframing is one of the most powerful tools you can implement to change your state of mind.

The approach also encompassed more abstract things like the temporal reality the story existed in. Thompson gave an example of a writer wanting to do a piece about passing a law in Congress. “There’s this tendency, if you’re a comedy writer, to write about it being proposed, it being debated, it being passed, it being implemented, and it having had a certain effect, and the temptation is to have all five of those things take place in a single news story that is running on one specific day.” Except that in real life, that’s not how it happens. Those things would happen on many days. So, if the goal was to parody a daily newspaper, the story would need to be about only one of those things—the “event” that modern news always reports on as an answer to the emblematic “What happened?” question.