#trivial

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#dice #enjoys #every #god #good

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#ambitious #brutal #dessert #down #game

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#counterfeit #crises #deeply #dreadful #emotionally

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#been #carpet #creating #deal #deploying

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. ↗

— John Piper

#trivial #life

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#good #had #hope #i #i think

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#perspective #pursuit #science #significance #trivia

To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#iraq #iraq-war #overanalysis #ramadi #triviality

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