A Quote by Alfred Adler

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Alfred Adler

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Child Play Pursuit Trivial Work

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Alfred Adler
Austrian - Psychologist
February 7, 1870 - May 28, 1937

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Frederick Lenz

You know what I'm great at? Trivial Pursuit. What good is that gonna do you in life? It has the word 'trivial' in the name. The game is basically telling you that you pursue trivial things. Trivial - as in not important. Trivial - as in maybe you should've gone to grad school.

Christian Finnegan

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Alan Bennett

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

Federico Fellini

Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

James St. James

I don't want to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

Nick Viall

In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

Thomas Boswell

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

John Carroll

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Kevin Youkilis

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

Lydia Millet

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David McCullough

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Ted Cruz

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.