Quotes About Trivial Matters

#1. Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

Zelig Pliskin

#2. If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#3. I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.

Lauren Kate

#4. And I said that Crozier did not need to call Fuck right now because we were not in trouble and did not need his help. And Toby said, That's right, he doesn't like to be summoned on trivial matters. And Zeb coughed.

Margaret Atwood

#5. When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Idries Shah

#6. Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling

Jim Butcher

#7. 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

#8. The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

Jim Corbett

#9. Open your arms to the world.

A.D. Posey

#10. The success of very important matters often depends on doing or not doing something that seems trivial. Even in little things, therefore, you must be cautious and thoughtful. Francesco Guicciardini

Bohdi Sanders

#11. 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.

Charles R. Swindoll

#12. An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

Lindsey Graham

#14. The difference between the two classes is often a trivial concern; but in a state, and when affecting really important matters, becomes of all disorders the most hateful.

Plato

#15. The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

Marty Rubin

#16. Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Ameen Rihani

#17. There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#18. Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Mark McCormack

#20. As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there.

Jack Finney

#21. We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.

Norhafsah Hamid

#22. Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

Walter Russell

#23. One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

Edwin Moses

#24. Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Ted Koppel

#25. I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

Tamsin Greig

#26. He did not live in fear of God because, he reasoned, a merciful God would not create us only to punish us for trivial earthly matters.

Nadia Hashimi

#27. I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

Tom Stoppard

#28. When all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

Galen Beckett

#29. Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [ ... ] Nobody tell me what make real marriage
respect.

Thrity Umrigar

#30. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

George Carlin