Quotes About Relevance

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Only useless things are indispensable.

The superfluous is very necessary.

A truth may be useful without being understood, indeed without being believed.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

What's the point of quoting the Bible to people who don't believe it's true" Dad would say.

An emotion is correct, "when one's feelings are adequate to their object — adequate in the sense of being appropriate, suitable, or fitting

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Always historicize!

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past, no matter how good it was—especially for an institution like The Washington Post.

So if you're interested in what I have to say, keep reading. If you find something, some little thing that resonates and might do some good in your life, great. If you get to the end of this book (or to the middle, or to page 27 second paragraph down) and think the book is crap, leave it on the subway and forget about it. No problem.

You're only as interesting to the extent of those that are interested in you.

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.

The past is boring anyway. We always pretend the ideals and culture of the past have aged like wine, but in truth, the ideas of the past tend to age more like biscuits. They simply get stale.

Everyone shut up and listen!" Steris snapped. "Or I will barf on the table to get your attention!" The entire room stared at her. "I'll do it," she warned. "I keep medication in my handbag to produce the effect. You'd be surprised at how often the option is relevant.

Goradel frowned at that. "I don't feel very expendable.

But we don't have to be like that," Hurl continued. "That's what I realized. A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

The Ham-Foldover Debacle:.....you make yourself the center of something that has nothing to do with you, out of your own fear or scarcity, only to be reminded that you're not the axis over which the world turns