Quotes About Relevance

importa," she says. It doesn't matter.

all which is forgotten need not necessarily be dead

As you can see, the homiletical idea is simply the biblical truth applied to life.

There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

non seulement le passé n'est jamais mort, mais il n'est même pas passé

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

For, obviously, things were not as simple as the framers of laws had imagined them to be, and if it was of small legal relevance, it was of great political interest to know how long it takes an average person to overcome his innate repugnance toward crime, and what exactly happens to him once he had reached that point. To this question, the case of Adolf Eichmann supplied an answer that could not have been clearer and more precise.

Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.

We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.

I remind myself to stay down to earth so I can keep in touch with my audience.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

My belief is that we all already care about something important. We all already know what is important and meaningful for ourselves. The problem is just that many of us have lost touch with it.

I don't want to commit to too many films, as it would result in getting out of touch with what is happening in the industry.

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.

The ability to touch people and literally change lives is incredibly relevant in a consumer-products company.

I am recognized a lot for 'Master of None.' It seems like that show really touched a cultural nerve in a good way.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that are a little out of touch. I think we've seen it happen with certain artists... people can't touch them; they're not touching people. They're only touching people in their circle.

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.