. . . there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.
You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.
I take my role seriously as a pastor.
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.
Laugh at yourself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.
I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.
Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?
I try not to take myself too seriously.
Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls only did that on TV.
Being able to make a sincere apology - one that says, "Yes, I get it; I screwed up. Your feelings make sense, and I'm taking this seriously" - is at the heart of being successful in leadership, parenting, and friendship, as well as our own integrity and self-worth. And the failure to apologize? Even a good relationship will suffer quietly - because we really feel it when someone won't take responsibility for what they said, or didn't say.
I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.
Every person is highly individualized so if a person is seriously concerned, then they first need to get a medical evaluation and make sure there's nothing biologically going on to prevent them from climaxing.