Trivial Quotes

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.
Andrew Weil

Life, Attitude, Gardening

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.
Jaron Lanier

May, Whole, Personal

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall

Bad, Idea, Software

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.
George Wald

Win, Thought, Mistake

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons

Great, Knowledge, Point

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Cliff Fadiman

Good, Forget, Memory

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.
Hu Shih

Year, Question, Language

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

Down, Keep, Write

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay

Character, Heart, Small

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.
Iain Banks

Society, Legal, Situation

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.
Max Weber

Age, Time, Good

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

Life, Death, Live

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Mary McCarthy

Equality, Science, Enjoy

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

Why, Might, Ourselves

The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't.
Stephen Hunter

Stupid, Tomorrow, Made

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Richard Armour

Trouble, Causes, Larger

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
Helen Hunt

Life, Nice, Live

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb

Hope, Nothing, Learned

I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
Caprice Bourret

Great, Deep, Two

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

Pretending, Duty, Critical

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 as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?
Jamie Zawinski

Someone, Why, Same

The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively - I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook - it sounds trivial, but people matter.
Reid Hoffman

Reason, Matter, Company

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.
Roman Jakobson

Giving, Different, Whole

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.
Ted Nelson

Whatever, Call, Number

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.
C. S. Forester

Everything, Emotions, Hollywood

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 the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
Steven Chu

Work, Time, Mother

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

Peace, Easy, Vicious

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.
Brendon Burchard

Life, Focus, Important

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

Humanity, Giving, Union

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.
Walther Bothe

May, Happen, Means

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