#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

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

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

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

— Harold Lloyd

#considerable #mental #pain #state #trivial

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#dues #giving #humanity #parties #pays

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#democratic #enjoy #equality #facts #how

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#conflict #deep #most #scales #something

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating