#serious

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#ask #country #encouragement #hold #me

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. ↗

— Colin Powell

#people #play #seriously #surround #surround yourself

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#both #champions #coming #commonwealth #community

I had no fun. My family was too serious. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#fun #had #i #serious #too

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#commission #conference #decided #draft #following

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#immediate #nobody #past #philosophies #seriously

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. ↗

— Maureen Reagan

#candidates #media #money #problems #raising

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death. ↗

— Leon Redbone

#because #business #death #doing #gentle

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#bathroom #been #children #come #conversation