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When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.

American Musician

Jon Krakauer

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.

American Writer

Julia Hartz

My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of 'it takes a village' really could not be more true.

American Businesswoman

Russell Crowe

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Australian Actor

Patrick Marber

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

English Writer

Norman Spinrad

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

American Author

Jan Karon

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

John Singleton

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

American Director

Nigella Lawson

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.

British Journalist

Portia de Rossi

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

Australian Actress

Trite often refers to expressions worn out by excessive use and lack originality or impact.

Overused Expressions

Use 'trite' when something lacks freshness and creativity, making it dull or uninteresting.

Lacks Freshness

'Trite' carries a negative connotation, implying a lack of thought or effort.

Negative Connotation

 And once you put these guys in a boat competing with another boat, now they've got no choice but to cooperate because they're all in the same boat. They can only win if they all pull together as a team. I mean, these things sound trite, but they are deep evolutionary truths.

Jonathan Haidt:...

 sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea