Quotes About Relevance

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

You just never know with movies how they'll be seen in a few years. You have no idea. Like, movies that were super popular when they came out have been forgotten. And other movies - and I put 'Sarah Marshall' in this - kind of weirdly stand the test of time a little bit.

If you don't get tested throughout your career, people can forget about you.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

blunt conclusion was that "Christianity has an image problem" among American youth.48 Similarly,

Through the twin pathways of white racial identity and the increasing relevance of Republican partisanship in each of these groups, the freewill individualism of white evangelicals has been diffused throughout white American Christianity

The point is that you figure out what that "audience" wants (not needs), and give them something right away that you know they'll love.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

So when someone sends out 10 million emails, as is so often the case, they don't really care that 9,800,000 people ignored or were annoyed by the intrusion.

Without location, there is no context." And for Apple, without context there will be no leadership.

Economics, he told Roy Harrod in 1938, is 'a science of thinking in terms of models joined to the art of choosing models which are relevant to the contemporary world… Good economists are scarce because the gift of using "vigilant observation" to choose good models… appears to be a very rare one'.

The last time I checked, relevance wasn't a fruit of the Spirit. For those who place such a premium on looking like, acting like, and sounding like the world, it should come as no surprise that they have no influence on the world. They often confuse acceptance by the world around them with actual Kingdom results in impacting their world. It is as though there is a deep insecurity at the root, and they are desperate to prove that you can be "Christian and cool.

Indeed, being relevant is not the problem. However, the obsessive, all-consuming desire to want to be accepted by the world because you are relevant is! The minute this becomes our modus operandi, we compromise ourselves right out of our purpose, which is to be salt and light in a darkened world.

Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world?

I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool

Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine