Work Seriousness Quotes

#1. I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

Jason Mraz

#2. Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

Tim Bishop

#3. I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.

Willie Geist

#4. Sometimes we just need a little break from this thing we call 'life', and step into the cartoon life for a moment

Andrea L'Artiste

#5. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

#6. Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

Anthony Powell

#7. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Umberto Eco

#8. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

Christopher Tolkien

#9. You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

Robert Patrick

#10. But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start, because Heidegger forces us in a way that few philosophers do to really think through the seriousness and all-encompassing nature of our mortality.

George Pattison

#11. Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#12. You'll love the song of the stars in your hair more than you loved the contents of your life, more than you loved tidy sealed boxes and certainty.

Sarah Bessey

#13. And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never have any?"

Henry leapt to his feet and pounded both fists on his desk in rage.

"You little idiot!" he roared. "I never had any!

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Booth Tarkington

#17. Sometimes I open or close the store. I have keys. I can go in any time I want. Some days, when it's my duty to open the store, I go in at eight o'clock, just to be alone and smell all those books around me. Each one is a door. Each one is a world.

Robert Goolrick