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.”

— Randy Pausch

“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term.”

— 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

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

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

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 the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Charles Spurgeon

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

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

— William Ellery Channing

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that…

— Elbert Hubbard