Quotes About Relevance

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.

It is not what you say, it is the questions you ask that are important. The only stupid question is the one you dont ask.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth is irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

It's no more obsolete than the Iliad. I may

It is true that the two men were not acquainted and had little or nothing in common, but psychological laws, like physical laws, have a more or less general relevance. And if the appropriate conditions are the same, the same expression lights up the eyes of different human animals, just as the same morning sky lights up places that are remote from one another and have no connection.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Data. That's what matters. That's what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it's useless.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Pour qui est né après la seconde guerre mondiale, ces événements vieux d'un demi-siècle sont comme des histoires de loups-garous. Cependant le message par lequel s'achève le compte-rendu de ces événements, et qui ne devait être que symbolique, est devenu d'actualité. (postface, 1993)

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life…

We are all living history, and it's hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing's certain, though: if we throw it away, it's gone.

So when I hear this snarky question (and I hear it everywhere): Are librarians obsolete in the Age of Google? all I can say is, are you kidding? Librarians are more important than ever. Google and Yahoo! and Bing and WolframAlpha can help you find answers to your questions, sometimes brilliantly; but if you don't know how to phrase those questions, no search engine can help provide the answers.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.