Quotes About Relevance

Los valores sagrados solo acostumbran adquirir una fuerte relevancia cuando son desafiados, de la misma manera que los alimentos adquieren un valor acuciante solo cuando no se tiene acceso a ellos.

What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all?

Merely having a function doesn't say anything about how many people can figure it out or are even interested in trying.

It's the mistakes you make before you even say a word that matter more. These include the mistakes of not having an interesting opinion, of not thinking clearly about your points, and of not planning ways to make those points relevant to your audience. Those are the ones that make the difference. If you can figure out how to get those right, not much else will matter.

If I killed myself now would I make the papers would anyone care I already know the answer to that besides it's irrelevant

You can launch your company with tremendous passion for the business. You can execute your vision flawlessly. But if you don't have a plan for learning, you won't be able to keep up with a constantly adjusting market, and you can become irrelevant very quickly.

The Old Testament was the Bible of our Savior, the apostles, and the early church. We cannot understand them or their work if we ignore the fount from which they drank or the authoritative library from which they read.

the idea of being a "published" author is an antiquated and virtually meaningless one.

I don't want to ever get used to feeling disconnected from the gospel.

And found myself then thinking: if it were nowadays, This is how Death would summon Everyman.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

at a deeper level, our anthropocentrism manifests itself as a conviction that human beings somehow matter to the universe.

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.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

When brands talk about themselves in real time, it's just boring faster.

I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.