Inconsequential Quotes

• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

  Eric Hoffer

  Education, Teaching, Playing Games

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Stress, Problem, Resources

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• For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

  Robin Green

  Sports, Men, People

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• Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check their diary when we arrange to meet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Friendship, Smart, Reading

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• It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

  Boris Johnson

  Good Life, Writing, Media

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• "You’re different,” he said, touching my face.
  Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.

  Sylvia Day

  Sacrifice, Men, Touching

  "Sylvia Day Crossfire Series Four Book Collection". Book by Sylvia Day, 2015.

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• There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
  or an inconsequential act of service.
  Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Simple, Compassion

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Opportunity, World

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too.

  Dalai Lama

  Deeds, May, Matter

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Desire, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.411, e-artnow

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• As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

  Ernest Cline

  Two, Skin Color, Years

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

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• Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, May, Strive

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• Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Use, World, May

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• For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

  Will Smith

  Fun, Home, Trying

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview With Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health care, but it may affect the way people who see the play think about the issue.

  Lisa Loomer

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

  Richard Walters

  Letting Go, Hurt, Giving Up

  "Let Go and Be Free: How Forgiving Calms Anger and Heals Wounded Hearts". Book by Richard Walters, August 15, 2002.

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• We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.

  Russell Means

  Believe, Animal, Power

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• The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

  Jean Houston

  Dog, Children, Men

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• There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beautiful, School, Sunday

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• Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Things In Life

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• The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Fabric, Weight, Dressings

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• We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

  Patricia Arquette

  Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

  Kenneth Arrow

  October, Investing, May

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Some decisions are obviously much more inconsequential than others. For example, let's say you choose the blue shirt over the red one; not much is likely to change. Red meat over white meat once a week won't likely make a huge difference in your health. But if you believe that grilled chicken is healthier than a cheeseburger, your lunch choice might cause you to pause; especially if you know that the cheeseburger also comes with fries and a large chocolate shake.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Lunch, White

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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