Quotes About Relevance

The importance of mirror-reflection symmetry to our perception and aesthetic appreciation, to the mathematical theory of symmetries, to the laws of physics, and to science in general, cannot be overemphasized, and I will return to it several times. Other symmetries do exist, however, and they are equally relevant.

Dad always said don't take it personally. Dad told you that because it was what you needed to hear. Dad always told me if a bird flies over you and shits on your shoulder, take it personally.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

Too many churches today have preachers who look to the culture around them not simply for the most effective methods of communicating their message but for the most effective message to be preached.

Truthless times need timeless truths.

Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That's the essence of contextualization.

Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

To align message with market is simply to communicate a message that resonates with your market.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. If the mockingbird were chirping to give us the long-sought formula for a unified field theory, the point would be only slightly less irrelevant. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

in those days children were rather out of fashion.

In the end most things in life—perhaps all things—turn out to be appropriate.

There are things that will not have themselves buried and put out of sight, as though they had never been.

We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.

The indifference operates passively, but it operates.

MAGISTRATE Don't men grow old? LYSISTRATA Not like women. When a man comes home Though he's grey as grief he can always get a girl. There's no second spring for a woman. None. She can't recall it, nobody wants her, however She squanders her time on the promise of oracles, It's no use...

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. Accidents, crimes, natural and man-made disasters, threats of conflict, gloomy editorials—these still seemed to be the main concern of the millions of words being sprayed into the ether. Yet Floyd also wondered if this was altogether

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.