Quotes About Relevance

that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

Then he said, "That's a long way from stage designing, isn't it." She nodded. "Quite a long way." She started to ask him if he intended to do any work pertaining to the atom bomb, but she didn't, because what would it matter if he did or didn't?

John Dewey, one of America's most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

The desire for a feeling of importance is one of the chief distinguishing differences between mankind and the animals.

Old ways of doing things cease to be effective, though they may have been very powerful in the past. There arises a very real danger that we will set ourselves in opposition to what God truly is doing now and aims to do in the future.

More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.

Jesus' enduring relevance is based on his historically proven ability to speak to, to heal and empower the individual human condition. He matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weakness he gives us strength and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity.

He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, "Life was in him, life that made sense of human existence" (John 1:4). To be the light of life, and to deliver God's life to women and men where they are and as they are, is the secret of the enduring relevance of Jesus. Suddenly they are flying right-side up, in a world that makes sense.

Very few people today find Jesus interesting as a person or of vital relevance to the course of their actual lives. He is not generally regarded as a real-life personality who deals with real-life issues but is thought to be concerned with some feathery realm other than the one we must deal with, and must deal with now. And frankly, he is not taken to be a person of much ability.

Theology" is a stuffy word, but it should be an everyday one.

What does the number of copies have to do with authenticity?

It must be remembered, however, that everything looks good on a resume and that previous experience is difficult to verify and to quantify.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.

But who the hell cares if the flowers bloom if no one is around to see them, to smell them?

It mattered not from whence it came;

Una organización centrada en su mundo interno puede funcionar muy bien, pero cuando no se adapta al mundo mayor en el que opera, su rendimiento puede acabar sirviendo a una estrategia fracasada.

la inteligencia emocional destaca especialmente sobre el CI en aquellos dominios "blandos" en los que la relevancia del intelecto para el éxito es relativamente menor, es decir, en aquellos dominios en los que habilidades tales como la autorregulación emocional y la empatía, por ejemplo, son más decisivas que las competencias estrictamente cognitivas.

Then, there's the mistaken notion that EI always matters more than

This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education

knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or "pan-agnostic" bubble, where we refuse to face these paramount issues. The truth matters, and the consequences of not possessing it are unstoppable, and often destructive (whether we can see the harm or not). It is even a greater moral imperative to sort through the issues that have a serious impact on us, either individually or socially.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.