Earnest 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

Hipness is the only asset that matters.

— Paul Saffo

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

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sage Francis

If you're trying to be hip, be hip.

— Miles Davis

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

— Cannonball Adderley

I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.

— Rick Rubin

I think you create your own hipness.

— Peabo Bryson

I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

— Jim Thorpe

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

— Eugene Levy