Marsai Martin Quotes

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

There is no point in taking yourself too seriously.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously.

You can't take yourself too seriously with anything.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.

I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.

I'm very competitive, but I know when not to be competitive. I know how to have fun, but I know when it's time to get serious. That makes things a lot easier.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.