Quotes About Relevance

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long.

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

No living thing is insignificant.

Townshend secretly longed to be rendered irrelevant, but his audience – which stretched further into the new generation than he liked to admit – would not let him go.

Emotions serve an important purpose—they clue you into things that you'll never understand if you don't take the time to ask yourself why.

That significance is not founded in their historicity but in their theology; not in what happened (or even that something did happen) but in why it happened. What was God doing? That is where the significance is to be found.

Death and irrelevance are coming to all of us.

As NONE of this is RELEVANT to TODAY'S TOPIC, which is the Scorching. Ahem.

Why make her feel so useless — if we're all useless? Because it is real. It has to be. But how can I prove it?

Who cares about all that ancient history?

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

If everything is important, nothing is

To make meetings less boring, leaders must look for legitimate reasons to provoke and uncover relevant, constructive ideological conflict. By doing so, they'll keep people engaged, which leads to more passionate discussions, and ultimately, to better decisions.

There is relatively little emphasis on legal issues and quantitative evaluations, which often distract employees from the critical messages their managers are trying to communicate. What is more, these systems are customized to provoke meaningful discussion between managers and employees about relevant issues that they are dealing with on a daily basis.

He wrote a simple question on a piece of paper: WHAT IS THE ONE THING I DO THAT REALLY MATTERS TO THE FIRM?

In order to be the kind of leader who demonstrates genuine interest in employees and who can help people discover the relevance of their work, a person must have a level of personal confidence and emotional vulnerability.

does it matter?

As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. Certainly I wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everybody's albatross.

Most makers make things for a human audience. And to engage an audience you have to understand what they need.

So if you can make something that appeals to people today and would also have appealed to people in 1500, there is a good chance it will appeal to people in 2500.

Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead- end a Neanderthal language.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day.