#serious

At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#feel #going #i #i feel #job

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#i #seriously #simply #take #why

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #like #love #pressured #prose

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. ↗

— Andy Summers

#compete #guitar #hard #keyboards #serious

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end. ↗

— David Niven

#circus #end #going #in the end #inside

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#job #keeping #lesson #perspective #seriously

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#sent #seriousness #stupidity

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#independent #nice #scene #seriously #taken

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#alternative #anything #been #cool #cool thing

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#consumer #create #cultures #i #i am