Daron Malakian Quotes

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly

I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

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

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.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

There is no point in taking yourself too seriously.

You can't take yourself too seriously with anything.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

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

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

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.

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

I've never taken myself too seriously.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

I don't take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.