Quotes About Relevance

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.

I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.

Customers don't just want to shop: they want to feel that the brand understands them.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

I am not some intellectual hoping to be understood a century from now. I'm a political leader. I have to stand in front of my community. If I am a metre too far out in front of the people, I'll lose them.

If you look at guys like Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and Undertaker, the reason why they are around so long is because they keep things interesting, and hopefully, I have been able to do it as well.

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

It is better to know so much about a few but important things, than to know so little about life, and much about trivial things.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish do not desire it.

It's not the price but it's the value of the thing that making them important

The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.