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Quotes About Relevance

To compensate for this undercurrent of uselessness, we pretend we're all terribly important and that we have something to bring to the world.
~ Ruby Wax
W isn't Wilhelmina: it stand for Walt! It's a sign specially for me ...
~ Rudi van Dantzig
A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.
~ Rudy Rucker
Not all important people are famous, and not all famous people are important. Let
~ Rue McClanahan
I firmly believe in shutting up when you've got nothing worthwhile to say. There's nothing worse than these writers who churn out book after book, each one a little duller, until nobody can remember why they liked them in the first place.
~ Rupert Smith
Perhaps there comes a time in your life when you lose the ability to command attention, when the world starts to ignore you because it no longer believes you can have much of an effect on it. With
~ Rupert Thomson
Nothing is insignificant; nothing is without consequence in the intricate web of life.  
~ Ruskin Bond
Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.
~ Ruskin Bond
Nothing is insignificant; nothing is without consequence in the intricate web of life.
~ Ruskin Bond
All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?
~ Russ Zandbergen
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
~ Russell Baker
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
~ Russell Hoban
Relevant visuals have one of the highest effect sizes of 1.4 for novice learners. In addition, learners like them! Don't shortchange or abuse this important instructional method. Remember to keep visuals simple based on the goal of your explanation. Excluding extraneous or distracting visuals also has a very high effect size of 1.66, so maximize the value of your visuals by keeping them relevant to your learning objective.
~ Ruth Colvin Clark
Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.
~ Ruth Downie
It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.
~ Ruth Ozeki
This tedious letter to you . . . what is one life to another?
~ Ruth Stone
Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?
~ Ryan Adams
Message: I can make fun of myself despite my perfection: I am more like you in this regard: it's safe for you to like me: please desire me: please give me your money for the honor of desiring me.
~ Ryan Boudinot
Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If you are not familiar with the age in which we live, read my stories. If you cannot endure my stories, it means that this age is unbearable.
~ Sa'?dat Hassan Manto
If you are not familiar with the age in which we live, read my stories. If you cannot endure my stories, it means that this age is unbesrable.
~ Sa'?dat Hassan Manto
Dünyada ?imdi onunla yan yana bulunmamam?z kadar mant?ks?z ve lüzumsuz ne vard?r acaba?
~ Sabahattin Ali
To write history, after all, is to read meaning into the events of the past on the basis of contemporary views of reality. The events themselves cannot make sense until they are filtered through the human lens.
~ Sachiko Murata