Quotes About Relevance

It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

That has nothing to do with the story.

Un giorno chiesi alla padrona di un'altra bancarella, che era mia amica, se i proprietari vendessero mai i libri. -No- disse- E' tutta roba gettata via. Ecco perché si sa che non valgono niente. Gli amici se li scambiano per leggerli sulle navi. -Senza dubbio-disse-devono lasciarne parecchi sulle navi. -Sì-dissi-la compagnia di navigazione li conserva e li fa rilegare ed è così che si formano le biblioteche delle navi.

If these the Times, then this must be the Man. [Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

Will going to this meeting teach me about the new technology or the new market that I think is very important now? Will it introduce me to people who can help me in the new direction? Will it send a message about the importance of the new direction?" If so, go to it. If not, resist it.

So even if you're just an invited participant, you should ask yourself if the meeting—and your attendance—is desirable and justified.

It's yet another example illustrating that the person who is the star of a previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to the logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.

Clocks are as pointless on the Tennessee as poets are on Earth.

Countries rise to power and then fall into triviality.

The only thing which exists, which counts, which still has any meaning, is fear.

Always consider the context.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier to do don't need to be done.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

If we're going to reach the unchurched, underchurched, dechurched, and postchurched with the gospel in a culture that's trending post-Christian, we must rethink our approach.

It's unfortunate that someone can grow up hearing sermons and Sunday school lessons, yet never be captivated by the Scriptures.

What have we fallen in love with that's not as effective as it used to be? What do we love doing that's not really working? What's off limits for discussion? Do we have any "old couches" that need to be thrown out?

La manera en que tú hables acerca de la Biblia en el fin de semana es la que determinará el interés que sientan por ella durante la semana siguiente. Tienes que hacerla accesible. Tienes que darles permiso para leerla antes que la crean.

They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.