Quotes About Relevance

Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

I don't want to have that one year too much, where people actually, behind my back, start smiling at me and pointing fingers at me and go, 'Ah, look, that's Jensie. No, he's not good anymore.'

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

I think sometimes with politics, young people especially have become disillusioned with it, because they can't relate to it, there's a lot of snobbery and people are a lot older.

So many people put older women out to pasture.

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

'Skins' meant so much to so many people. It was so much part of its time, and I was so young.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

Marketing and sales isn't about trying to persuade, coerce, or manipulate people into buying your services. It's about putting yourself out in front of, and offering your services to, those whom you are meant to serve—people who already need and are looking for your services. In

The gigantic invisible broom that transforms, disfigures, erases landscapes has been at the job for millennia now, but its movements, which used to be slow, just barely perceptible, have sped up so much that I wonder: Would an Odyssey even be conceivable today? Is the epic of the return still pertinent to our time?

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam

cuvintele obiÈ™nuite sunt f?cute spre a se stinge de îndat? ce au fost rostite, ele n-au alt scop decât acela de a servi în momentul comunic?rii; ele sunt supuse lucrurilor È™i nu sunt decât însemnul acestora; dar iat? c? aceste cuvinte deveniser? ele însele lucruri È™i nu erau subordonate sau supuse la nimic; nu mai erau destinate comunic?rii imediate È™i dispariÈ›iei rapide, ci d?inuirii.

Wenn Jan die Grenze für sich als ein Höchstmaß an zulässiger Wiederholbarkeit definiert hat, muss ich ihn jetzt korrigieren: die Grenze ist kein Resultat der Wiederholung. Die Wiederholung ist lediglich eine der Möglichkeiten, um die Grenze sichtbar zu machen. Die Grenzlinie ist staubbedeckt, und die Wiederholung ist wie die Geste einer Hand, die den Staub wegwischt.

išta nije shvatio i još danas nimalo ne shva?a važnost bezna?ajnosti. -Da, razumijem. Nepotrebno je biti briljantan. - Više nego nepotrebno. Štetno.

Ništa nije shvatio i još danas nimalo ne shva?a važnost bezna?ajnosti. -Da, razumijem. Nepotrebno je biti briljantan. - Više nego nepotrebno. Štetno.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

We all love the first Rocky, but I'm not too sure about the last one.

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.