Trivia Quotes - Page 3

• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  People, Risk, Peers

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• It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Space, Should Have

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• 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.

  Matt Fraction

  Thinking, Devil, Stories

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Heart, Two

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• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Airplane

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• 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.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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

  Christopher Langan

  Thinking, Deep Thought

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• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.

  James Lovelock

  Real, Technology, Space

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• 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

  Dream, Photography, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage

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• People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

  Natalie Portman

  Heart, People, Capable

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• 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.

  Phil Ramone

  Heat, Speak, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Gratitude, Cutting, Awe And Wonder

  "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.

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• In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Clear Goals, Kaizen, Loyal

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• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed -- we are going somewhere. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes 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.

  Michael Korda

  Husband, Keys, Doors

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• NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.

  Andy Borowitz

  Black, Cain, Republican

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jan 11, 2012

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

  David Shrigley

  Life And Death, Want, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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