Quotes About Relevance

Idle and superfluous all day long, all at once they had become visible, needed, and

why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

What good would it do me if truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognized her or not?

Wat voor goed zou het me doen als de waarheid voor me stond, koud en naakt, en er niet om gaf of ze door mij werd herkend of niet.

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

Never was such a great event, with such ancient causes, so well prepared and so little foreseen.

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

Listen, and you'll hear a story being told, one you may need to know.

For a long while the past drops away from you easily and it would seem automatically, properly. Its scenes don't vanish so much as become irrelevant. And then there's a switchback, what's been all over and done with sprouting up fresh, wanting attention, even wanting you to do something about it, though it's plain there is not on this earth a thing to be done.

Durante mucho tiempo te desprendes del pasado con facilidad y de una forma que parece automática y adecuada. Las escenas del pasado, más que desvanecerse, dejan de tener importancia. Y entonces se produce una brusca vuelta atrás, lo que está acabado y bien acabado resurge de repente, requiere tu atención, incluso que hagas algo al respecto, aunque salte a la vista que no se puede hacer nada.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.