#seriously

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#difference #disastrous #first #i #i have learned

I never took myself too seriously. ↗

— Curt Gowdy

#myself #never #seriously #too #took

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. ↗

— Jack Irons

#am #began #could #fall #finish

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#ill #mentally #more #population #seriously

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' ↗

— Max Planck

#any #anybody #been #engaged #entrance

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older. ↗

— Leila Josefowicz

#get #i #i wish #make #me

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#behind #far #female #filmmakers #get

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#hang #hear #her #i #maria

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. ↗

— George Saunders

#brady #bunch #family #greek #had