Quotes About Relevance

Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?' (page 262)

You matter, yes you heard me right. Anyone who thinks/speaks otherwise is just taking you for granted period.

You should be committed in all that you do in life. For, your value increases along side with your level of commitment i.e. the more committed you are, the more valuable you will be. Besides that, anyone who is not committed in whatever he or she does will sooner or later become redundant (no longer needed or useful). In other words, lack of commitment causes redundancy. Thus, you've got to be conscientious. I mean, be diligent in all your works or duties (for life). ~Emeasoba George

Everything that can be classified is perishable. Only what is susceptible to several interpretations endures.

Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?" —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

Dialogues build strong links when they are about things that matter.

It is a sentimental error ... to believe that the past is dead.

The greatest works which the world has seen have not been dedicated to an unknown posterity, but have been produced to satisfy the daily needs of their age, and have, therefore, of necessity conformed to the tastes, and usually to the fashion and the prejudices, of the period which gave them birth.

Cose che per qualcuno sono di nessuna importanza, per altri possono essere terribili come la morte.

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

Something ordinary in the past becomes valuable in the future

Geography is best learned along with history; for if the first explains history, the latter gives interest to geography, which without it is but a dry list of names.

opposed to another. Timing don't matter.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

It shows how to evaluate claims about facts (what might happen) and about values (what might matter).

Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.