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«Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.»
«Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
| Keywords:
bureaucratic, high-performance, lighten, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, mastery, performance, secure, seriousness, warning
«Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.»
«Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
circumscribed, circumscribes, derives, moral excellence, pressure, recording, records, seriousness, severe, strenuous| Occasions:
Olympic
«Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.»
«Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arguments, convinced, efforts, seriousness, sincerity
«Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Seriousness,
Shallowness
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refuge, seriousness, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows
«Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.»
«When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook»
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