Quotes About Relevance

En pocas palabras, cada carta, un método de comunicación realmente antiguo en el mundo de los mensajes instantáneos, el correo electrónico, los SMS y los teléfonos móviles, estaba más pasada de moda que las señales de humo, las palomas mensajeras o el código Morse. Las cartas no contenían más que un mensaje sencillo y aparentemente elegido al azar.

Myth, the smoke of history, is seen to signal new and more relevant meanings when espied from the distance of later millennia.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did...To Mr Phillips, the fact of others' indifference has never brought any comfort.

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.

Aunque pensaron que entendían el texto bíblico, no lo aplicaron a su propia vida ni a su experiencia del mismo Hijo de Dios que vivió en medio de ellos (Mt 16:1-4; 22:29; Jn 5:39-40).

Semplicità significa sottrarre l'ovvio e aggiungere il significativo.

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant.

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Why couldn't the game be more accessible to the average person? Why shouldn't tennis get the same kind of treatment—and interest—as baseball, basketball, or football?

The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren't present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.

Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .

Sebastien had raised Jack Priest, and for all his fey flighty affection, Garrett's estimation of the young man was that he was a keenly trained observer, and one who knew that the most relevant clues were sometimes those that seemed incomprehensible at the time. And that that ostensible delicacy masked a galvanized will. She kept a terrier. She knew the type.

A living dog's better than a dead lion.

His experiences and hers became harder and harder to tell apart; everything gathered behind them into a common memory - though singly each of them might, must, exist, decide, act; all things done alone came to be no more than a simulcra of behaviour: they waited to live again till they were together...Every love has a poetic relevance of its own...

I hope I have important things to say.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

You say to yourself, 'Have I kidded myself all these years. Does what I care about really matter? Is (my opinion) important? On a scale of one to ten, would it even register?' And instead of not caring, you decide to care even more.

If people stop looking at you, do you cease to exist? Does it mean you're not a person any more? Does it mean you're already dead?

Everyone has to feel like they matter.

I did not feel that I mattered.

He made me feel that I mattered.