Quotes About Relevance

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case Big Shot and Bette Davis Eyes. The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.

The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps. Mr.

The class focused on US history since the Civil War, but at every opportunity Mr. Hill guided them to the present, linking what had happened a hundred years ago to their current lives. They'd set off down one road at the beginning of class and it always led back to their doorsteps.

Nadie niega que el hombre en ciertas circunstancias no puede comprender el sentido, sino que ha de interpretarlo, lo que ni mucho menos significa que esta interpretación se haga arbitrariamente. En efecto, a cada pregunta corresponde sólo una respuesta, la correcta, y a cada problema sólo una solución, la que vale; así también a cada situación corresponde un solo sentido, que es el único verdadero.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

Readers call Tolstoy a giant not because other writers are dwarfs but because he remains always of exactly our own stature,† exactly keeping pace with us instead of passing by in the distance, as other authors do.

Companies should strive to make the competition irrelevant by offering buyers a leap in value.

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant. Instead of dividing up existing—and often shrinking—demand and benchmarking competitors, blue ocean strategy is about growing demand and breaking away from the competition.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

Unfortunately, when my truth becomes more important than the truth, the Bible loses its objective authority.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I think if Jesus would have been alive today, he would have been all about the pot. I think he would have really grooved on it, and that's why he would've gone to jail today.

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

Fifty years on, we're still watching her movies and talking about her. That's not a dumb woman – trust me!

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

We don't burn our books, she says. We pulp them. Much more civilized, right? Mash them up, recycle them into toilet paper. Those books wiped someone's rear end a long time ago. Oh, says Bird. So that's what happened to his mother's books. All those words

Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it

Modernleri büyüleyen, Yunanistan'?n en az apolloncu yönü kadar dionizoscu yönü de olmu?tur. Üç yüzy?ld?r, Eski Yunan mitoslar?n? yeni ba?tan yorumluyor Avrupa; Avrupal? yazarla­r? büyüleyen, bu mitoslar?n ilkel ve ha?in taraflar?. Yunan ve Latin edebiyatlanna ancak ?u manada klasik demek yerindedir: mekteplerde okutulurlar ve her zaman tazedirler.