Core Quote by Randy Pausch

“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes…

— Randy Pausch

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

— Randy Pausch

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

— Sage Francis

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

Hipness is the only asset that matters.

— Paul Saffo

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

— Sandra Bernhard

I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full…

— Pankaj Mishra

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

— Charles Spurgeon