Quotes About Relevance

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.

The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.

it has faced the challenge of establishing its relevance to baby boomers who reject the Leisure World model of late adulthood

A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

And it's absurd, how people hang on every word

verdad que le concierne íntimamente, una oscura consecuencia de su historia,

A good maxim is never out of season.

Cuando uno se olvida de ir a lo sustancial, se pierde en lo anecdótico.

Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.

Those who glorify the past and seek to re-create it, almost invariably fail, while those who view it comprehensively and critically are able to draw on the past in meaningful and lasting ways.

many Germans who received information about the mass murder from other people no doubt heard it from people who themselves had heard it on the radio. Indeed, other than the sources of information about the Holocaust already mentioned, all other sources were of secondary importance at best.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

A model is a simplification. It is an interpretation of reality that abstracts the aspects relevant to solving the problem at hand and ignores extraneous detail.

and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now).

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic .

Theological work and real pastoral fellowship can only grow in a life which is governed by gathering round the Word morning and evening and by fixed times of prayer. Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic . . . Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it . . . Trust to the Word. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER