A Quote by Nicolas Bentley

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

Nicolas Bentley

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Exaggerate Importance Instance Life Much Seriously Short Should Taken Too Too Short Trifles

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Nicolas Bentley
British - Author
June 14, 1907 - August 14, 1978

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.

Vicki Lawrence

I have this very simple logic about life that it should not be taken too seriously.

Sushmita Sen

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

Warren Buffett

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

Paul Prudhomme

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

Guido Palau

Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken, while taking the ordinary, everyday, middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken.

Whiting Williams

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

Sherman Alexie

The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

Frederick Buechner

I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to be respected. You want to be taken seriously, and there's certain things in our culture, if you do, if you wear, you won't be taken seriously.