Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly… — Emmett Kelly Copy Share Image
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones. — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of lower east side rapscallions, his soft-spoken… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency… — Joel Warner Copy Share Image
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan.… — Maliha Masood Copy Share Image