Quotes About Relevance

Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl…

del alma», lo más probable es que a nadie le interese. He llegado

Anyway, the same words can be found in both books, which makes sense because they're written by the same author.

It seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl

Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl

I seriously doubt whether anyone will be interested in this dribble

I didn't want to talk about my past, and I didn't care about his. For any of us, it's who you are today that matters.

Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event ans it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape.

It seemed they viewed her differently now. She had status. She mattered. All at once they were interested in what she had to say. She hadn't fully understood that before this, she hadn't mattered, and she felt indignant but also, against all logic, gratified. And also fraudulent. It was confusing.

the past is never dead. It's not even past.

Construction workers are more important to everyday life than stockbrokers and yet are far lower down the social and financial ladder.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.

Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.

There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just

How many people would reach out and wonder (or complain) if you didn't send out that next email blast? That's a metric worth measuring and increasing.

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.

Here's another way to describe the two axes: One asks, Can you see it? The other wonders, Do you care?