Trivia Quotes
Trivia Quote of the day
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.
NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.
I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.
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.
It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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.
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
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.
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.
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.
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
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.
Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.
Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.