Quotes About Relevance

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn't we reverse it?

TIME has a wonderful way to show us what really MATTERS.

What weight does the glory truly hold, when the arena that you were playing in was not significant to begin with?

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

When my absence does not alter your life. Then my presence has no meaning in it.

This and this and this, I said to him.

Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

a relationship with time that removes all relevance from the distinction between memory and forgetting, something like a rediscovery or, as in the case of the ritual when it is successful, a renewal.

In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.

To learn that a great book has gone out of print is to be reminded of our mortality, because something we have made an intimate part of our emotional selves has been declared, by the publishing world and the culture at large, to be obsolete.

we ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.

Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.

It will take away a man's usefulness in his generation.

My problem with that is I don't believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy's moral views, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, like conventional political parties are organized around some guy's economic views.

So we're the monster police, too?" I said to Tom. "Correct," he replied. "The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?

Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.

Lies do not in themselves lead to poor outcomes, nor does truth in every circumstance lead to good ones. As with so many things, context matters.

The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?