Trivial Quotes - page 3

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur. (Nicholas D. Kristof)
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. View quote
Megan McCafferty
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. View quote
Andrew Weil
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. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning. View quote
Barbara Fredrickson
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny. View quote
Glen Cook
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to it's fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. View quote
Dan Buettner
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. View quote
Dan Buettner
What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. (George Jean Nathan)
I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. View quote
Lisa Lutz
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters. View quote
Idries Shah
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. View quote
Alexandra Fuller
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. View quote
Howard Nemerov
Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life. View quote
Charlotte Rampling
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. View quote
Hu Shih
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. View quote
Chuck Eddy
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. View quote
George Wald
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. View quote
Johnny Ball
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. (Nick Stahl)
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. View quote
Sheena Iyengar
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. View quote
William Bennett
Here is my advice. When in doubt, give my new efforts a hearing. Many feel a calling to break new ground; in the end, few will end upfinding their efforts chosen. But the yea-sayer does do less harm than the naysayer, in that the Darwinian process of adverse testing will in time (most likely?) separate the useful from the useless, the trivial from the profound. View quote
Paul Samuelson
[On the lyrics of his songs] They meant a lot to my generation. And it's nice to know you've written songs that mean something to someone rather than some trivial pop dirge. I'm not thriving off a career slagging off the Queen. I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. View quote
John Lydon