Quotes About Relevance

The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture.

Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

Well then, Homer. I expect you to be of use.

You're always telling me I don't have any faith," I wrote to Owen. "Well—don't you see?—that's a part of what makes me so indecisive. I wait to see what will happen next—because I don't believe that anything I might decide to do would matter.

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

requiere cierta «visión de conjunto» que revele el significado y la relevancia de cada una de las partes. Los atenienses perdieron esa «visión de conjunto» en Sicilia. La asamblea

Tolstói rivaliza con él, en mi opinión, a la hora de detectar lo relevante y lo significativo donde, a primera vista, parece que no está.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

In education, parody is obsolete.

In this age, you must be relentlessly remarkable to stay relevant, if not you will be relegated.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

You're only as good as your last story.

The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.