Quotes About Relevance

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can go your whole life if you stay current and you stay fresh.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date.

some people may have difficulty applying these facts to their theological system. For instance, if a person says, "I believe the Ten Commandments are the rule of life for a Christian today," that person should realize that he is also saying, "I believe the words or terms of the covenant given to Israel and kept in the ark of the covenant are the Christian's rule of life for today.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time.

We gain nothing by bringing God's revelation into accordance with today's science. In contrast, it makes perfect sense that God communicated his revelation to his immediate audience in terms they understood.

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

This hitteth the nail on the head.

Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what's behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed

As stated earlier, you don't sell what it is you claim to offer. You sell what the eventual buyers think they are going to get from your product. For instance, insurance sales folks don't sell insurance; they sell peace of mind.

No one who is anyone anymore.