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Letter "T" » trivial
«The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions.»
Author: A. Harvey Block
| Keywords:
brainstorming, contributions, innovative, Sessions, superficial, trivial, uncreative
«There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.»
Author: Sam Keen
(motivational speaker, Philosopher, Spiritual mentor, Writer)
| Keywords:
cost of living, determining, devoid, devoid of, emptying, formula, gradually, legitimate, livelihood, pocketbook, pretending, right and wrong, Right to return, sense of right and wrong, separated, trivial, vocation
«The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever»
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
| Keywords:
atoms, banal, color television, composed, dial, dials, dimensions, disappeared, dot, dots, dotted, drained, flat, flicker, flickering, flickers, lament, microscopic, phenomena, reassure, reassuring, reduced, registered, screen, sharply, The Dial, the movie, trivial, two dimensions
«There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.»
«The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.»
«Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.»
«The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
between, difference, Into the Unknown, in relation to, learned, least, relation, relation to, to that, trivial, unknown, unknowns
«The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
basest, immensely, noble, pattern, preferable, related, relatedness, related to, trivial
«Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.»
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