Quotes About Relevance

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

When people have nothing positive or negative to say about you, it means you don't exist

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

How can we begin to move schools to become places of more relevant, connected, creative learning? Even with a plan, it won't be easy.

But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written.

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.")

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest

I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

The past is never dead, it is not even past.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

There's no great future in being the leading supplier to a dying industry.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.