Quotes About Seriousness

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

lo hizo sumamente bien: nunca estaba demasiado cansado para jugar al escondite, ni demasiado ocupado para inventar historias maravillosas, ni demasiado absorto en sus problemas para no escuchar con toda seriedad una queja. Cada

She could not comprehend the attitudes of young people these days. Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her. Jean Louise was about to make the worst mistake of her life, and she glibly quoted those people at her, she mocked her.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

The Earth, after all, doesn't creak and groan its way around the sun just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

You can't be ironic about dead people.

I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone to be welcome. I think some of the more serious writers wrote to a more elite audience than that. They're the ones who were defining the seriousness of rock n' roll.

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

With Edge and Christian, we were like 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure,' the Bill & Ted of WWE. We were kind of goofy, kind of funny, humorous, but then when we had to be serious in the ring, we would get serious.

Just because I don't smile a lot, people think, 'Ah, yeah. He must have a bad attitude.' But if you don't know me, you don't know me. That was the problem. My face is just serious!

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

People who turn to not take me serious unconsciously neglect the future and by so doing their actions from then bears consequential results for both their ignorance and their state of unconsciousness.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

Come tutte le nature caparbie non aveva il senso del ridicolo.

As is the case with all those of a tenacious nature, he lacked any sense of the ridiculous;

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.