Quotes About Relevance

good story also has specific details to help the listener see herself in the founder's story. A detail such as Sara's seat number on the airplane is irrelevant to the story. The fact that Sara's $98 pair of white pants hung in the closet for eight months because she didn't like the way they looked on her is something that many women can relate to.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

I was something women and men could agree on. They didn't like me in the same way, but they liked me with the same intensity, and were all fine with the other sex liking me, too. Isn't that weird? Think about it. And then stop and ponder something actually important. •

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Words have influence only when they are pertinent...

I feel myself dissolving, vanishing into nothingness, for if there is no one in the world who cares for you, do you really exist at all?

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

History is always the interpretation of the present

Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?

When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits on the Iron Throne?

Like all tales, it takes on the attributes that make it most appealing to those who tell it.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

We've changed kins since then, some of us twice. No one cares, no one remembers.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

beyond important news, let's face it: Facebook and Twitter are filled with information no one really needs to know.

On a deeper level, the sharing of our lives on a daily basis is a statement of our values and of what makes us tick. In so doing, friends who are far away may feel close by, and long lost acquaintances or relationships may resurface, often with alarming results.

Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and connectivity grows.

More importantly, the tweet was funny. Come on, it's funny.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Sometimes we don't stop to think how some historical event only appears to be more distant than it actually is. When I was born, the Second World War was a mere twenty-three years in the past, but it has always seemed like a completely different epoch to me.