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  • What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

    Spiritual   Men   Light  
    Frederick Franck (1974). “Pilgrimage to now/here”
  • NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

    Black   Cain   Trivia  
    FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2012
  • In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

    "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.
  • Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

    People   Risk   Peers  
  • What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.

    Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage
  • It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

  • I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear time as we experience it on something that exists outside of linear time as well as keeps new readership away by keeping comics a matter of trivia and history rather than actual stories.

  • Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.

    "Sarah Silverman talks boobs, and answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 23, 2014.
  • I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

    Real   Lying   Airplane  
    "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.
  • The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

    Brain   Useless   May  
    Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.100, Simon and Schuster
  • By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

    "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.
  • Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

    Rap   Mma   Giving  
  • Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

  • I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?

    Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
  • I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

    Real   Thinking   Issues  
  • I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.

    Brother   Children   Nuts  
    Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
  • Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  • Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

    Heart   Practice   People  
  • Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.

    Trivia   Heat   Speak  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

  • My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

    Careers   Long   Creative  
    Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.
  • There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

    Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
  • Our political press has just been captured by trivia.

    Source: www.wbur.org
  • Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

    Life   Loss   Way  
    Dan Simmons (1996). “Endymion”, Spectra Books
  • People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

    Heart   People   Trivia  
  • To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.

  • Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

  • I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish t were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one’s life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow. I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.

    Sorry   Pain   Sunset  
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