Top 46 You Can't Take Yourself Too Seriously Quotes
#1. Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.
Philip K. Dick
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.
Guy Kawasaki
#10. 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
#11. Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.
Susan Sontag
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,
James Martin
#16. 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
#17. If people don't take politics seriously, then they deserve the jokers that rule over them.
Jit Sharma
#18. 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.
#19. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry
#20. Like many people of limited intellectual scope, Snouty did take what he could do very seriously.
Terry Pratchett
#21. I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie
#22. 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
#23. Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.
Stephen Colletti
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.
Rick Yancey
#30. 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
#31. America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.
H.L. Mencken
#32. He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.
Paulo Coelho
#33. 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
#34. I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
Judi Dench
#35. There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.
Blink-182
#37. 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
#38. The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
John C. Maxwell
#39. People sometimes need to laugh, relax, and not take themselves so seriously.
Jones Loflin
#40. It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
Betty White
#41. We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.
Rick Warren
#42. Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#43. Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
Ari Graynor
#44. You have to have a sense of humor about it all. You can't take yourself too seriously.
Garth Stein
#45. You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
#46. You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.
Paula Patton
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