Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

Discern the vital few from the trivial Many. — Greg McKeown
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. — Alfred Adler
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness -… — Toni Morrison
Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another. — Sun Myung Moon
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. — Edward Tufte
There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people… — Kano Jigoro
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If… — Leo Tolstoy
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… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. — Robert Graves
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… — Douglas Merrill
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town… — Storm Jameson
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. — Richard P. Feynman
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. — Samuel Johnson
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I… — Gretchen Rubin
Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord. — Richard G. Scott
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell
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… — Walther Bothe
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… — Ted Nelson
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. — Johnny Ball
The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. — Harold Lloyd
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something… — Jamie Zawinski
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning… — Steven Chu

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