#serious

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#begin #ceasing #failures #immense #importance

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#believe #bore #damn #must #seem

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter. ↗

— Ed Markey

#analysis #data #matter #scientific #serious

RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#going #involved #might #needs #players

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#been #deficiency #given #inactivity #instructions

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#decisions #effect #effects #experience #ignore

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#because #been #had #lots #questions

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies! ↗

— James McAvoy

#by the time #considered #i #importantly #ladies

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#being #best #full #getting #into

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#became #cell #days #fearful #hash