Quotes About Taking Things Easy

#1. Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Mark Twain

#2. Taking the easy way isn't right. You need to do things properly in life to achieve the best results. People who cut corners are only fooling themselves.

Sinead Moriarty

#3. When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

Mary Hansen

#4. Our lives should have depth, which means pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and not taking the easy way out all the time.

Marie Tillman

#5. Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

Raymond E. Feist

#6. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

#7. I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.

Jason Dohring

#8. The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what's simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It's like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

Naomi Novik

#9. It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

Seth Godin

#10. The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

Christophe Agou

#11. People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

Wynton Marsalis

#12. It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

Rob Payne

#13. Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.

Margaret D. Klein

#14. Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

Avery Johnson

#15. If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.

Neale Donald Walsch

#17. It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#18. For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#19. You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.

Robert Griffin III

#20. I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go.

Jacques Villeneuve

#21. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.

Amelie Mauresmo

#22. So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Anna Quindlen

#23. Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

Bruce Jackson

#24. It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

Winston Churchill

#25. Life is about taking what you want and giving even more. Not because you think you should, because you want to. Love isn't easy because life isn't easy. You have to fight for the things you want. Sometimes you win and sometimes you wish you lost instead

Rachel Robinson

#26. My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Tom Robbins

#27. It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

Chrissie Wellington

#28. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these students are standing up to their biology.

Alexandra Robbins

#30. You'd better eat that," she says.
"I'm taking it easy on my stomach," I protest. "Come on. It just had a knife in it.

Kendare Blake

#31. It is easy to sit up & notice. What is difficult is getting up & taking action.

Al Batt

#32. It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore De Balzac

#33. Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves.

Melody Beattie

#34. Among a thousand other things, she loved Alex for his easy use of we. His willing, unconscious way of taking an oar at the galley of your problem, even if it was just to listen. Even if both of you knew he couldn't do jack shit to help, he made it about us and made you feel less alone. "I

Suanne Laqueur

#35. Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Tony DiCicco

#36. If you get a dog, take care of your dog! You can just not have a dog if you don't feel like taking care of one, it's very easy to not have a dog.

Mallory Ortberg

#37. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage

Anonymous

#38. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.

M.T. Johnson

#39. Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

Flora Kidd

#40. So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

Jack Kerouac

#41. I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

Jack White

#42. Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.

April Mae Monterrosa

#43. My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.

Ben Folds

#44. Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

Constantine Manos

#45. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.

Melyssa Winchester

#46. The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

Joe Biden

#47. Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road.

Julia Quinn

#48. Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering.

William Steig

#49. I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

Elvis Presley

#50. Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard ...
Everything is different
The second time around.

Regina Spektor