My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
There's the complex categorization of low warmthhigh competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
I am seriously considering it.
Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.
I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.
We do not take humor seriously enough.
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.
I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
Life is too important to take seriously.
I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing.
I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.