Quotes About Relevance

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

I don't care about the word 'art' because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of 'art' today.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

JESUS: I'm not above it all--I'm right here in it, don't you see that?

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Those who rejected it wholesale, as Agassiz did, consigned themselves to increasing irrelevance. AGASSIZ

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

When we use any teaching approach, we need to be clear exactly what it's intended to achieve. This clarity should be apparent not just to us but also to students. So a lecture should begin with the lecturer explaining its purpose, its relevance to course goals and the syllabus, and its connection to earlier class sessions or assignments.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The pre-attentional parts of the self use a complicated analytic process to determine relevance. They weigh a large variety of factors to gauge relevance; this includes such things as the intensity of the sensory inflow, its novelty, the degree of contrast between a sensory stimulus and its sensory background, and its rarity.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.