#trivia

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. ↗

— Dee Hock

#free #lead #our people #peers #people

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

#all things #artist #away #be brave #brave

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

— Richard Armour

#larger #things #trivial #trouble

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. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

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

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#because #call #embarrassed #know #nothing

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

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#accomplishments #behind #fade #i #life

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. ↗

— Harold Lloyd

#considerable #mental #pain #state #trivial