Serious Quotes - Page 17

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

Work? It’s just serious play.

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.