Quotes About Trivial

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Little things please little minds.

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.

If you want to win the war for attention, don't try to say 'no' to the trivial distractions you find on the information smorgasbord; try to say 'yes' to the subject that arouses a terrifying longing, and let the terrifying longing crowd out everything else.

All life is made up of trivial actions.... Every one of them leaves its little trace. Whether you are tracking a bear by its footprints through the forest, or a criminal through his nefarious deeds, it is the same thing. Both leave their spoor behind.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

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.

It is the essence of a good title, in my opinion, that it means more after you have completed the story than before you started it. If that is not true, then either the title or the story, or both, is trivial.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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

Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.

As shown from the track record of the prophets: before you are proven right, you will be reviled; after you are proven right, you will be hated for a while, or, what's worse, your ideas will appear to be "trivial" thanks to retrospective distortion.

They seem to be excited about something terribly unimportant

the price difference appears to be small enough to be negligible

But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re

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…

The matters we or the world might consider trivial, He cares about and wants to remedy. He longs to relieve our worries and has promised to supply our most fundamental needs.

Some invasions barely warrant the name.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Since it didn't happen,' said Alberich, 'it can't be important.

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.

Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, is more than a barren life, it's a trivial one.