Quotes About Seriousness

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

She drops her art if anything else catches her. Her contrariness prevents her taking it seriously - she must never be serious, she feels she might give herself away. And she won't give herself away - she's always on the defensive. That's what I can't stand about her type.

Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it" and "People who are serious about software should make their own hardware.

Le donne sono serissime quando devono dare un bacio, gli diceva Coy. Ridono per tutto il tempo, ma quando arriva il momento del bacio sono come un gatto che vede qualcosa muoversi nell'erba alta.

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

But no one laughed. No one would. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding.

Good thing he changed it," Jerry mused. "Who could take a vampire named Will Walwoi seriously?" "Jerry … !" "Will Walwoi, Prince of Darkness! Curse of Will Walwoi! Will Walwoi Meets the Wolfman! Abbott and Costello Meet Will Walwoi!" Jerry began to laugh. "Can you imagine Bela Lugosi saying, 'Good eeevening. I am Will Walwoi!

Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.

I giggled and he took it very seriously and wrote everything down. I thought it was going too well, I was doing too well, it was going to look like nothing was wrong. I'm not this great! I wanted to say. Really, I'm a wreck, help! But I couldn't speak up. I smiled and tried to look brilliant.

We might be mad or stupid, but at least we were serious.

Durante los años noventa el relato era un requisito imprescindible para cualquier proyecto político: y el relato consistía en explicar por qué un movimiento político o un partido merecía tomarse en serio y por qué valía la pena creer y difundir sus mensajes esenciales.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

I know I look like I'd rather be outside surfing, or climbing a mountain, or running a marathon than sitting here with you, but don't be fooled. I'm as serious about my job as you are about yours," he said. "I'm only asking for another thirty minutes today. What's the big rush?

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun

A giggle, huh. I guess they think this is a joke," I said. "Well, I'm not laughing.