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Uploaded: 2025-11-08
Description: They all want to find a cause or calling that they can throw themselves into. They're all searching for their staircase. And that gives me hope because people are not purely selfish. Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger.

Peter Navarro

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

American Economist

Chris Christie

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

American Politician

Margaret J. Wheatley

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

American Writer

Kevin Costner

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

American Actor

Simone Weil

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

French Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

German Philosopher

Eduardo Galeano

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Uruguayan Journalist

Camille Grammer

At the end of the day what matters most is that we can cut through the pettiness and drama when it really counts and support each other.

American Celebrity

Jean Racine

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

French Dramatist

Jeetendra

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

Indian Actor

Pettiness is often used informally to indicate someone's minor concerns or behaviors.

Informal Tone

Using 'pettiness' usually implies a negative judgment of someone's actions or attitudes.

Negative Implication

'Pettiness' implies disputes or disagreements that could be seen as insignificant or avoidable.

Unnecessary Conflict

Pettiness can describe an immature way of handling situations, hinting at a lack of growth or development.

Immature Attitude

Pettiness can harm friendships or relationships due to its focus on insignificant negatives.

Interpersonal Relations

Being petty can be an obstacle to constructive discussion or progress in a task or project.

Obstacle to Progress

 They all want to find a cause or calling that they can throw themselves into. They're all searching for their staircase. And that gives me hope because people are not purely selfish. Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger.

Pettiness

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