Take Nothing Seriously Quotes

#1. People take sex far too seriously.

Christina Aguilera

#2. I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Allen Tate

#4. If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Shay Mitchell

#5. Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

Douglas Pagels

#7. You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

Thomas Keating

#8. Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks ?" Simon said.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

Judy Holliday

#10. Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.
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Brandon Sanderson

#11. I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

Larisa Oleynik

#12. Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don't value architecture, we don't take it seriously, we don't want to pay for it and the architect isn't trusted.

David Chipperfield

#13. I don't take myself too seriously! That makes me happy.

Dalai Lama

#14. I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously.

Lauren Conrad

#15. The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

David O. Russell

#16. The missional church will take context seriously, but will also work on recovering the biblical narrative with its richness and potency for today's world. When story and context are equally embraced, we are beginning to think and act missionally.

Michael Frost

#17. I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

Victoria Beckham

#18. I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out ... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.

Susan Hill

#19. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.

Malcolm Turnbull

#20. Hopefully people will take me more seriously as an actress. That's what I really want to do, it's my passion and it's what I want to be considered to do. I just want to continue to do film, it's what I love.

Miley Cyrus

#21. Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

Melissa McCarthy

#22. Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance ... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

Amanda Schull

#23. There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

E.F. Benson

#24. Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Michio Kaku

#25. Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

Jesse Eisenberg

#26. If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself ... Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

Elisabeth Elliot

#27. Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

Chrissy Teigen

#28. Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

Vin Diesel

#29. I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.

Simon Van Booy

#30. I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

John Irving

#31. When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

Piers Anthony

#32. In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

#33. The psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

David Foster Wallace

#34. I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.'

Megan Fox

#35. To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Robert McAfee Brown

#36. When I looked back, nothing was ever as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, it was usually better than I could have imagined. I learned that we should take each moment both more and less seriously because everything passes. The joyful moments are just as fleeting as the terrible ones.

Noelle Hancock

#37. To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

Arthur Schnitzler

#38. There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#39. People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Whitfield Diffie

#40. Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Susan Sontag

#41. Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.

Terry Pratchett

#42. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Dave Barry

#43. I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

Harry Connick Jr.

#44. If people don't take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.

Jit Sharma

#45. If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,

James Martin

#47. My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.

Sonu Nigam

#48. take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.

Peter Thiel

#49. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.

Denzel Washington

#50. I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

David Bowie

#51. Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?"
"Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch."
"Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul's Drag Race again?

Nicole Peeler

#52. I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

Guy Kawasaki

#53. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

#54. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Virginia Woolf

#55. I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

#56. I never take myself too seriously.

Lee Westwood

#57. MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

Megan Alexander

#58. Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

Richard Branson

#59. I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Orson Welles

#60. I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.

Matisyahu

#61. People sometimes need to laugh, relax, and not take themselves so seriously.

Jones Loflin

#62. The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

John C. Maxwell

#63. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

William T. Vollmann

#64. Is it splendid, or stupid, to take life seriously?

Gustave Flaubert

#65. There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

Blink-182

#66. I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Judi Dench

#67. You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Nicole Kidman

#68. He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

Paulo Coelho

#69. America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

H.L. Mencken

#70. Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

Philip K. Dick

#71. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.

Rick Yancey

#72. If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

Barack Obama

#73. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

Ian Bogost

#74. How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

Tamra Davis

#75. I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously.

Madonna Ciccone

#76. I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#77. Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

Stephen Colletti

#78. I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

Claire Tomalin