Quotes About Relevance

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to you. If it teaches you something you need to learn.

He wants to say: First of all, you were wrong about pop music. And art and all of pop culture. And all kinds of things. Because all of it matters. Even if it is awful. Everybody knows all the bad movies and the bad songs on the radio. Because it's the only thing anybody has in common anymore. It's all anybody has. So you were wrong about that and you were wrong about us and you were wrong about me, but he doesn't actually say any of this out loud.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

Jesus and the apostles didn't think that eschatology was irrelevant two thousand years ago

Any friendship that costs you nothing is not yet relevant in your life.

Kundera's novel [ The Unbearable Lightness of Being ] seems as relevant now as it did when it was first published. Relevance, however, is nothing compared with that sense of felt life which the truly great novelists communicate.

Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.

Only by the possession of a sense of humour am I saved from insignificance. To

I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.  This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.

INTEGRITY—Did I do my best? EXPECTATION—Did I please my sponsor? RELEVANCE—Did I understand and relate to the audience? VALUE—Did I add value to the people? APPLICATION—Did I give people a game plan? CHANGE—Did I make a difference?

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.

If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way!

Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator": being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.

Even the right thing said in the wrong situation won't connect.

Size does matter and it doesn't happen to all guys.

When you stop caring that's when they wanna start caring.

You matter to people when you serve their purpose, when you cease to do so the matter in you is worthless.

It wont matter in a year and it wont be remembered in 10 years.

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

The best quote isn't having the most beautiful or the longest words, but the one that matches our feelings when we read it.

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

Being negligent is irrelevant, why be hell bound when you can be heaven sent.