Top 1200 Don't Take Life Too Seriously Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I used to take acting so seriously, but after we did the Quest pilot and the show sold, Kurt Russel said, "You know, you work too hard. You'll make yourself sick. You can't work that hard doing a series, because it goes on so long. It's like a baseball season. You've got 162 games. You can't just go all-out the first week or two. You can't maintain that pace." And it's true.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

I think it takes a little bit of time for people to take you seriously.

Anyone who is funny and doesn't take herself to seriously is attractive to me

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

One of the things we say a lot internally is that we take money really seriously.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

I have never worked for money. My job is to entertain and I take it very seriously.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.

If I had a bad game and we lost I take it very seriously. I feel if I play a good game that other guys will follow and that will help us win more games. And if I don't, I take it upon myself as being my fault.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

Take what women say seriously. That hasn't always happened in this country.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

I rehearse my script with my co-actors and take their tips quite seriously.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.

We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone's opinion, the right books don't get chosen. Still we need books to be chosen even if they are not exactly the right ones, otherwise many people won't know what to read. As a publisher, I feel prizes are important for the publishing business. But as a writer, I think, writers shouldn't get too distracted by prizes because very often they don't go to the right person. You shouldn't take it too seriously if you haven't won a prize.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one, and I take that very seriously.

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

As a parent I fail because my son does not take me seriously.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.

I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.

I realize that you still have to take the game seriously, but you have to have fun at the same time.

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.

You don't have to be an All-American. You just have to have character and courage, and I take that message very seriously.

I just take this job very seriously. It's almost like you play a kid's game for a king's ransom. And if you don't take it serious enough, eventually, one day, you're going to say, 'Oh, I could have done this, I could have done that.'

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.