Quotes About Relevance

All history is modern history.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Black Power is not racially intolerant. It is the hope of the black man that he should have power over his own destinies. This is not incompatible with a multiracial society where each individual counts equally. Because the moment that power is equitably distributed among several ethnic groups, the very relevance of making the distinction between groups will be lost.

Five learning skills, or "habits of mind," were at the core of her school, and each was matched up with a corresponding question: Evidence: How do we know what's true or false? What evidence counts? Viewpoint: How might this look if we stepped into other shoes, or looked at it from a different direction? Connection: Is there a pattern? Have we seen something like this before? Conjecture: What if it were different? Relevance: Why does this matter?

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

The scarecrow never goes out of style."

too much detail can have a distancing effect

Riker tells Data to just get on with it already, so Data says Ferengi are like Yankee traders from 18th-century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 600-year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you're stuck in traffic on the freeway, and say, "Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media.

recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation.

clear, simple, salient, and meaningful disclosures.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness.

Are good and evil of importance to the universe or only to man?

Businesses that don't do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn't ever change.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Poetry, as Allen Ginsberg reminded his friends, is news that stays news.

Je pense encore au cordonnier de P., mort de n'avoir pas trouvé repreneur à sa cordonnerie. "Alors ma vie ne vaut rien?" C'est ce qu'il ne cessait de répéter. Personne ne voulait racheter sa raison d'être. "Tout ça pour rien?" Il en est mort de chagrin.

Los sabios de la antigüedad, que muchas veces se citan para apoyar alguna idea, eran sabios en su época, pero no en la nuestra.

Indeed, feelings don't just matter–they are what mattering means.