Quotes About Relevance

If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

You want to find yourself in the flow of time, miraculously relieved of your irrelevance.

People are no longer afraid of him.The spirit and the time are with him. (Il ne fait plus peur. L'esprit et le temps sont avec lui.)"

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received

What does it matter

in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted

Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

But be careful: Measures are only beneficial if they lead to profitable action. It is tempting to measure things simply because they are easy to measure; instead, we need to measure things that matter, even when it is difficult to do so. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts,"4 Einstein observed.

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.

A good maxim is never out of season.

Each week in the sample of 3,500 homes: 16 hours were spent reading newspapers, 25 hours watching TV, and 47 hours listening to the radio. If radio is dead, they'll have a hard time convincing it that it should lie down.

I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

The gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time.

Bill Hull has prophetically written, "The crisis at the heart of the church is a crisis of product.

Eugene Peterson puts this truth cleverly: "Jesus, it must be remembered, restricted nine-tenths of His ministry to twelve Jews, because it was the only way to reach all Americans."2

No one cares. If you don't exist, then it doesn't matter, right? Evan

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.