Top 1200 Serious Business Quotes & Sayings

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Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

An annuity is a very serious business.

When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Look, I've had four kicks at the can. You've had a tremendous career. We're also happy. We've loved. We've lived. We don't starve. We haven't been shot in the gut. So at that point, I started getting a little more serious about the content we were making and the business and building the business. I also became more serious about life and being happy. I got married, I have kids - I'm happy at a cellular level now.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

Business is business and I take it very serious.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I love producing other people's work, but presenting is a very serious business. It's a marriage.

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

Humor is a serious business.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of that. And climate change is a game-changer. We really are in serious trouble as a species if we stick with business as usual. We desperately need to find alternatives, and in fact we are surrounded by them.

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.

The UFC is a very serious business, it's not the WWE. Guys break their arms and get knocked out in there.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Basketball is a business to me. It's entertainment; it's a business, it's very serious.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

Maintaining a beard is serious business.

Backing a company is a serious business.

I try to let the people I do business with off the court know that I'm serious about my business off the court. So I try not to mix the two.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Good design is serious business.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Television is serious business. It's a lot of hard work.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

I think government is serious business and important.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.

In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

For years, people have been trying to talk to me about doing a show, and I wouldn't do one because I'm a serious business guy. I'm not going to do a stupid show. So, the opportunity came up with CNBC, and we started talking. It became a real business show. It's educational, people watch it, and it's great for small business.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Comedy is tough. It is a serious business.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.