Quotes About Relevance

All history is contemporary history.

What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling conversation.

Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it.

When you let the camera linger, when you crowd a scene with details, you are announcing that everything is important, and if you do this constantly, then you are also saying that everything is important, and when everything is important, nothing is important.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

I think it's refreshing that it's not called 'The Archie Show.' It's called 'Riverdale,' not 'Archie,' which is good.

Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?' That's the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.

I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.

I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

I like movies I can relate to.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.