Quotes About Relevance

The steering wheel and the engine are of equal importance. It is a human impulse—composed of equal parts arrogance and instinct—to believe we can rank everything in our environment. Importance is not an intrinsic quality of the universe. It exists only in our delusion-filled minds. I can assure you that humans are not in any form or fashion more important than rocks or steering wheels or engines.

Irrelevant questions focus on the person rather than on the person's qualifications for the open job.

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

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The history of the object is more relevant than the object itself, if we want to pinpoint what is interesting to us.

We live in the shadow of a great lie, and by the time we figure out that it is a lie we are closing in on death and have become irrelevant consumers, and a new generation of young and relevant consumers takes our place in the great chain of shopping.

The first step is to measure what can be easily measured. This is okay as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which cannot be measured, or give it an arbitrary quantitative value.This is artificial and misleading.The third step is to presume that what cannot be measured really is not very important.This is blindness.The fourth step is to say that what cannot be measured does not really exist. This is suicide.   I'm

for it is through the prophets that God adapts to our need whatever might seem to us remote and of no concern to us. Surely

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.

Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

Now he preferred his newspapers, with their long columns of print, each letter painstakingly laid out by hand to create something that would lose its relevance almost as soon as it appeared on the newsstands, the news within already old and dying by the time it was read, quickly overtaken by events in the world beyond.

one ignored the mundane at one's peril. After

One ignored the mundane at one's peril.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

That is, by the way, an introductory definition of a parable: a story that never happened but always does—or at least should.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.