Quotes About Relevance

If everything is mission, nothing is mission.

The important thing today is not what we say of Lincoln but what Lincoln would say of us if he were here in this hour and could note the drift and tendency in American life and American politics.

We have dumbed down what it means to be part of the church so much that it means almost nothing, even to people who already say they are part of the church.

Styx has become the mullet of bands.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could -- I'm searching for the right word -- could, could die.

the entire Bible is written for you, but not all of it is written to you.

It's important to remember that the verses in the Old Testament were addressed to the people of that covenant, and not to you.

When we come to the New Testament, we must understand how this new covenant that God has made is different from the old one. We have to see that, not only is the old covenant outdated, it has become completely obsolete.

Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, "In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.

A lot of bands, they'll try to jump on the bandwagon or the fad or the fashion, and they'll skyrocket, have this quick overnight fame. But as soon as that fad or fashion changes, they'll go out with it.

I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.

Slayer just goes from generation to generation to generation, because it's just so great.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes they have nothing to do with.

I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.