Quotes about Trivial

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. Votes: 4

Trivial losses often prove great gains. Votes: 3

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on. Votes: 3

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. Votes: 3

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. Votes: 3

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad. Votes: 3

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits. Votes: 3

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. Votes: 3

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. Votes: 3

The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect. Votes: 3

Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on the other hand, engages you, enthralls and satisfies you, it contributes to the meaning of your life Votes: 3

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Votes: 2

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Votes: 2

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Votes: 2

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. Votes: 2

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. Votes: 2

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. Votes: 2

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. Votes: 2

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. Votes: 2

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. Votes: 2

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Votes: 2

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring. Votes: 2

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable. Votes: 2

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. Votes: 2

I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature. Votes: 2

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. Votes: 2

We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story. Votes: 2

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Votes: 2

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 2

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. Votes: 2

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. Votes: 2

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Votes: 2

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. Votes: 2

When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world. Votes: 2

To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration. Votes: 2

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. Votes: 2

Believe me, nothing is trivial Votes: 0

Toyish airs please trivial ears. Votes: 0

I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted. Votes: 0

In war trivial causes produce momentous events. Votes: 0

In war, important events result from trivial causes. Votes: 0

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. Votes: 0

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many. Votes: 0

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial Votes: 0

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. Votes: 0

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial. Votes: 0

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest. Votes: 0

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. Votes: 0

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. Votes: 0

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Votes: 0

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. Votes: 0

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. Votes: 0

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones! Votes: 0

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. Votes: 0

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. Votes: 0

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial. Votes: 0

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord. Votes: 0

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound Votes: 0

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird. Votes: 0

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many. Votes: 0

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design Votes: 0

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. Votes: 0

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. Votes: 0

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. Votes: 0

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. Votes: 0

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary Votes: 0

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. Votes: 0

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. Votes: 0

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. Votes: 0

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. Votes: 0

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. Votes: 0

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained. Votes: 0

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Votes: 0

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. Votes: 0

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask. Votes: 0

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents. Votes: 0

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. Votes: 0

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. Votes: 0

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences. Votes: 0

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. Votes: 0

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,... Votes: 0

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. Votes: 0

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving. Votes: 0

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3] Votes: 0

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego. Votes: 0

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. Votes: 0

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. Votes: 0

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. Votes: 0

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning. Votes: 0

If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial. Votes: 0

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial. Votes: 0

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Votes: 0

This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new. Votes: 0

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. Votes: 0

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job. Votes: 0

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. Votes: 0

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well Votes: 0

There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial Votes: 0

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial. Votes: 0

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. Votes: 0

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. Votes: 0

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters. Votes: 0

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. Votes: 0

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. Votes: 0

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. Votes: 0

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. Votes: 0

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial. Votes: 0

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Votes: 0

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree. Votes: 0

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another. Votes: 0

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously Votes: 0

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. Votes: 0

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. Votes: 0

All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble. Votes: 0

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly. Votes: 0

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant. Votes: 0

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Votes: 0

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. Votes: 0

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. Votes: 0

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them. Votes: 0

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist. Votes: 0

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. Votes: 0

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. Votes: 0

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies Votes: 0

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. Votes: 0

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. Votes: 0

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal. Votes: 0

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial. Votes: 0

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great. Votes: 0

Everything else seemed trivial; like talking about your favourite film while your airplane is falling out of the sky. Votes: 0

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. Votes: 0

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. Votes: 0

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse. Votes: 0

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. Votes: 0

A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything. Votes: 0

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. Votes: 0

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. Votes: 0

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. Votes: 0

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivial issues. Votes: 0

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. Votes: 0

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Votes: 0

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. Votes: 0

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion"¦ Votes: 0

Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small. Votes: 0

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. Votes: 0

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. Votes: 0

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. Votes: 0

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. Votes: 0

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere. Votes: 0

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? Votes: 0

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. Votes: 0

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. Votes: 0

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. Votes: 0

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. Votes: 0

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. Votes: 0

Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive. Votes: 0

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. Votes: 0

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. Votes: 0

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. Votes: 0

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. Votes: 0

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. Votes: 0

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D. Votes: 0

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. Votes: 0

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children. Votes: 0

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter. Votes: 0

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. Votes: 0

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial. Votes: 0

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. Votes: 0

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur Votes: 0

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. Votes: 0

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. Votes: 0

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority. Votes: 0

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. Votes: 0

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. Votes: 0

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose. Votes: 0

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. Votes: 0

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living. Votes: 0

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease. Votes: 0

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections. Votes: 0

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work. Votes: 0

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes. Votes: 0

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. Votes: 0

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned. Votes: 0

Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth Votes: 0

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements. Votes: 0

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring. Votes: 0

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. Votes: 0

I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with. Votes: 0

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Votes: 0

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. Votes: 0

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun. Votes: 0

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living. Votes: 0

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. Votes: 0

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. Votes: 0

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another. Votes: 0

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. Votes: 0

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. Votes: 0

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. Votes: 0

Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought. Votes: 0

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial. Votes: 0

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point. Votes: 0

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things. Votes: 0

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. Votes: 0

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial. Votes: 0

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to. Votes: 0

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. Votes: 0

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 0

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. Votes: 0

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. Votes: 0

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by. Votes: 0

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. Votes: 0

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal. Votes: 0

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Votes: 0

Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones. Votes: 0

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out. Votes: 0

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first. Votes: 0

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal. Votes: 0

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God. Votes: 0

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. Votes: 0

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. Votes: 0

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. Votes: 0

Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral. Votes: 0

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind. Votes: 0

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter! Votes: 0

Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here. Votes: 0

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality. Votes: 0

The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders. Votes: 0

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones. Votes: 0

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever. Votes: 0

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies. Votes: 0

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four. Votes: 0

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does. Votes: 0

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art. Votes: 0

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution. Votes: 0

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. Votes: 0

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes. Votes: 0

The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. Votes: 0

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial. Votes: 0

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges. Votes: 0

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. Votes: 0

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love." Votes: 0

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways. Votes: 0

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain Votes: 0

Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels. Votes: 0

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels. Votes: 0

The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict. Votes: 0

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion. Votes: 0

The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure. Votes: 0

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. Votes: 0

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Votes: 0

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort. Votes: 0

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy. Votes: 0

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. Votes: 0

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial. Votes: 0

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections. Votes: 0

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table. Votes: 0

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious. Votes: 0

I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial. Votes: 0

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial. Votes: 0

We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial. Votes: 0

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. Votes: 0

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues. Votes: 0

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. Votes: 0

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. Votes: 0

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear. Votes: 0

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers. Votes: 0

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many. Votes: 0

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'! Votes: 0

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Votes: 0

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours. Votes: 0

There is no more destructive force in human affairs -- not greed, not hatred -- than the desire to have been right. Non-attachment to possessions is trivial when compared with non-attachment to opinions. Votes: 0

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. Votes: 0

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not. Votes: 0

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority. Votes: 0

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms. Votes: 0

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial. Votes: 0

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Votes: 0

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country. Votes: 0

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country Votes: 0

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Votes: 0

I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life. Votes: 0

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner. Votes: 0

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. Votes: 0

Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity. Votes: 0

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. Votes: 0

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued. Votes: 0

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us. Votes: 0

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs. Votes: 0

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. Votes: 0

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else. Votes: 0

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths. Votes: 0

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Votes: 0

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down. Votes: 0

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. Votes: 0

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink. Votes: 0

We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered. Votes: 0

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. Votes: 0

Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art. Votes: 0

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. Votes: 0

Daily Christian living, in other words, is daily Christian dying: dying to our trivial comforts, soul-shrinking conveniences, arrogant preferences, and self-centered entitlements, and living for something much larger than what makes us comfortable and safe. Votes: 0