Quotes About Relevance

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn't matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

In your eighties you are invisible. Nearing ninety you hope no one sees you.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

You don't need the fame to be vital.

but maybe even the smallest places mean something.

By the way, it's apparently true that you'll never use it in the real world. Math, I mean.

before i die i want to matter

Fazer o que for preciso pra não esquecer que estou aqui e que minha opinião importa.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Apparently there is a python magazine that is about computers, and a python magazine that's about really big snakes and if you get one you don't really want the other.