Quotes About Relevance

La antigüedad no es lo mismo que el interés histórico —dijo—. De lo contrario, nosotros dos seríamos más interesantes de lo que somos.

What do I think about the story? he asked himself. I don't even know if we've got the right version. But no, that's not the point. The right version would presumably be true, and a legend doesn't have to be true, it has other things to do.

Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.

I'm afraid I can't do the things you want me to do because people don't go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don't think they'd be very interested.

There are no old movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

De minimis non curat praetor (The magistrate does not consider trifles) said the Roman law almost two thousand years ago—but many decision-makers still need to learn it.

And you seem to spend a lot of energy on the question of how to be successful. But that is the wrong question." He paused, then like the Zen master thwacking the table with a bamboo stick: "The question is: how to be useful!" A great teacher can change your life in thirty seconds.

The focus on contribution counteracts one of the basic problems of the executive: the confusion and chaos of events and their failure to indicate by themselves which is meaningful and which is merely "noise." The focus on contribution imposes an organizing principle. It imposes relevance on events.

To be meaningful, teaching children to become literate is about the here and now, and what children can do with literacy to serve their interests.

The trouble with great literature is that any asshole can identify with it.

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

A map may be beautiful, but if it doesn't tell us what we want to know, or clearly illustrate what it means to tell us, it's merely a decoration.

Just as dead men make lousy ministers, dead organizations make lousy ministries. The

Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates.

But it doesn't matter. The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are.

Science fiction acts best as a guide to help people cope with the present. It should sharpen our concern and ability to handle current problems. It shouldn't just be an escape.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

que el Reino del Cielo había llegado a su fin. Que no debíamos vivir como si fuera más importante que la misma vida, porque lo más importante es siempre el lugar donde nos encontramos.

Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.