Thinking Seriously Quotes

#1. If the restrictions on the work of my party and on me personally are not removed in the very, very near future - that is in a matter of days - I think the United States should start thinking seriously of sanctions. This is really about as bad as it has ever been.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Twyla Tharp

#3. Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I was afraid of looking into my heart ... afraid of thinking seriously about anything ... I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved ...

Ivan Turgenev

#5. Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?"
"Yes."
"My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Ayn Rand

#6. If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Claire Danes

#7. When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

Tommy Shaw

#8. I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

Lois Lowry

#9. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever

L.M. Montgomery

#10. I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.

Bryan Adams

#11. whatever it is you choose to think, your subconscious mind takes it very seriously and your experience will reflect your thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#12. I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

Chelsea Handler

#13. I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Chris Bauer

#14. Seriously? Do you ever not think about food?"
"Of course I do," Dex replied with a smirk. "When I'm thinking about sex. Though sometimes I like to think of both at the same time." He wriggled his eyebrows, but his partner remained unimpressed.
"Am I going to have to give you a time-out?

Charlie Cochet

#15. I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

Michael Maccoby

#16. Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

Jim Jefferies

#17. Francis taught me that if we spent less time worrying about how to share our faith with someone on an airplane and more time thinking about how to live radically generous lives, more people would start taking our message seriously.

Ian Morgan Cron

#18. Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking ...

Alexander Woollcott

#19. I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

Bill Nighy

#20. Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, Is she acting, or does she really mean it?

Anne Frank

#21. I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

Emma Donoghue

#22. I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Mick Jagger

#23. But seriously, what were his parents thinking? Naming their son Richard Updike? Did they want him to get beaten up his entire adolescence?

Carolyn McCray

#24. I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.

Angela Cartwright

#25. When you say you love me, it doesn't matter.
It goes into my head as just chit-chatter.
You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free,
But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

MC Lyte

#26. In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

Murray Mexted

#27. People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

Kristen Stewart

#28. There's something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they're brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.

Max Mosley

#29. I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

Danger Mouse

#30. Now you're thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils ... I could seriously get into that. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

Paul Oakenfold

#32. The fact that my dick's in it's happy place is probably saving your life. Trust me when I say I'm seriously considerin' strangling you, Sophie. Thinking about fuckin' you balances that out.

Joanna Wylde

#33. I must have been seriously frustrated by my lack of sword-fighting skills to make all this up. My dream head hurts just thinking about it.

Susan Ee

#34. He takes himself far too seriously and thinks he is very important. I don't like it when someone glorifies themself.

Jens Lehmann

#35. I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.

John Nettles

#36. I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

Jim Elliot

#37. Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

Ingrid Newkirk

#38. You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today.

Hassan Blasim

#39. When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

Adam Jones

#40. I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Matt Tong

#41. You must allow yourself to start thinking BIGGER and acting BOLDER with regards to what's possible for you. Seriously. Don't wait. Start now.

Hal Elrod

#42. I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Terry Tempest Williams

#43. I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

Terry McMillan

#44. I think one thing I do pretty well is not taking myself too seriously.

Linus Torvalds

#45. When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.

Stephen Covey

#46. I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

Jean Michel Jarre

#47. You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

Seymour Papert

#48. Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Angelina Jolie

#49. When you focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor and just do your thing and you stop worrying SO much about what every one else is thinking and doing and STOP taking life way too seriously ... Awesomeness happens!

Tanya Masse

#50. I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

Tom Stoppard

#51. I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

Daniel Keys Moran

#52. I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

Frederick Lenz

#53. I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

Tariq Ali

#54. It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

Debra Messing

#55. Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

Charlie Kaufman

#56. I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

Assata Shakur

#57. I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.

Hal Elrod

#58. The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Paul Krugman

#59. Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.

Zachary Cole Smith

#60. I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

Amber Tamblyn

#61. There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.

Peter Thiel

#62. Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Carrot Top

#63. I think too, Jay Lethal being apart of Ring of Honor and being in that role where he's one of the guys who has the company on his back, he's taking that very seriously, and you can see it n his work. So it's been really cool to see.

Adam Cole

#64. I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

S.A. Tawks

#65. If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

Mark Teixeira

#66. The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

Cornel West

#67. At Tatas, we believe that if we are not among the top three in an industry, we should look seriously at what it would take to become one of the top three players.. or think about exiting the industry

Ratan Tata

#68. I think zombies are kind of cute."
"Seriously?"
"I may be thinking about bunnies. Which one has the fluffy little tail, zombies or bunnies?"
"Bunnies."
"Then it's bunnies I'm thinking of.

Derek Landy

#69. I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

Rick Yancey

#70. I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

Kesha

#71. To be honest I think my read is people are now taking this seriously. They realise that the game is up and the planet and all of us - I mean all of us - have to really start doing something much more drastic in order to try and contain the impacts.

Chris Barrie

#72. I think path in spirituality chooses us. I doubt seriously that we really have much choice in the matter.

Maya Tiwari

#73. I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

John Cena

#74. Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Michael J. Gelb

#75. When we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.

Julia Gregson

#76. Many who think that they are taking life seriously are actually only taking themselves seriously. Who takes himself seriously is over conscious of his rights; who takes life seriously is fully conscious of his obligations.

Joseph T. O'Callahan

#77. I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people, a number of artists, who were taking it very seriously and doing very imaginative work with Instagram as the medium.

Stephen Shore

#78. I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

Eric Foner

#79. That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

Robert Stack

#80. The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, 'Senator, we ought to change the policy,' then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

John McCain

#81. When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

Will Arnett

#82. If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.

Chris Vance

#83. I haven't dated anyone seriously in three years-maybe longer- because when they open their mouths, they no longer interest me. But you? You eat up my thoughts all day long. You make me wonder what your thinking even when you're not around me. I'm fucking crazy about you, Marjorie.

Jessica Clare

#84. Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it.
"Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles.

J.K. Rowling

#85. God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

John Donne

#86. Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

Betty White

#87. Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

Takeda Shingen

#88. I am never usually taking myself too seriously and I think that people when they read stuff from me, they have to realise that I'm having fun.

Katy Perry

#89. I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

Geoffrey Rush

#90. He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

Mimi Rogers

#91. I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

Mark McNairy

#92. You can't help but feel the energy of the audience - and if you feel they hate you that feels weird and dirty. But I would never want to take it too seriously. It's understandable that you're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think that's helped me survive.

Charlyne Yi

#93. But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?

Laini Taylor

#94. It would be a nice way to finish my career by remembering that I batted cleanup in the game in which my team won the World Series. But I now am convinced that I can still help, and if the right situation presented itself, I would have to think seriously about it.

Darren Daulton

#95. One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

Paul Theroux

#96. We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

Richard L. Evans

#97. Observation #8: Boys are icky.
Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously.

Kate Brian

#98. How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.

Frederick Lenz

#99. I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

Eugene Fama

#100. I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also I'm monogamous.

Tracey Emin