Quotes About Relevant

#1. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She

Jodi Picoult

#2. When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

Laura Donnelly

#3. It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally.

Gerard Butler

#4. Usually when we reason, our minds have a tendency to grab any information that seems to be related to the topic, in the process retrieving both relevant cues and those that seem somehow to be connected but may not actually matter

Anonymous

#5. One dream is never enough, and your dream can be molded and finessed along the way to become relevant and successful.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

Dean Wareham

#7. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

James Chace

#8. You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Robert De Niro

#9. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,

Kristin Neff

#10. Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

Elliott Hundley

#11. There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Ben Edwards

#12. When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.

S. E. Cupp

#13. How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Tom G. Palmer

#15. The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?

Robert Longo

#16. The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Jeff Goodell

#17. In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

Garrett Camp

#19. In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#20. I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

Jay-Z

#21. The holy scriptures contain no proclamation more relevant, no responsibility more binding, no instruction more direct than the injunction given by the resurrected Lord as He appeared in Galilee to the eleven disciples.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Joel Spolsky

#23. How to be a great teacher:
Know your students.
Know your subject.
Make it relevant.
Teach in an organized place, in an organized way.
Encourage curiosity.
Ask the questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Time is priceless.
Care.

Dee Henderson

#24. In sum, what have we learned? First: grit, talent, and all other psychological traits relevant to success in life are influenced by genes and also by experience. Second: there's no single gene for grit, or indeed any other psychological trait.

Angela Duckworth

#25. If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

Alona Tal

#26. You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

George Schaller

#27. The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always relevant to the woman's decision, and it may serve to confuse and punish her and to heighten her anxiety.

Harry A. Blackmun

#28. Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

Ban Ki-moon

#29. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.

Rafe Esquith

#30. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Sarah Thornton

#31. His words make sense. He's not the man for me. This is what he meant, and it makes his rejection to accept ... almost. I can live with this. I understand.

E.L. James

#32. The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much 'relevance'. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

Edward St. Aubyn

#33. I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

James G. March

#34. Scout out competitors' websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

John Manning

#35. Freemasonry is relevant as much as the actions of Freemasons are meaningful.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#36. Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Sydney J. Harris

#37. You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Octavia Spencer

#38. And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.

Alastair Reynolds

#39. The trends that last and the trends that are relevant are the ones that make you look pretty.

Aerin Lauder

#40. It was cool to wake up knowing your day would include someone else in a way that was integral to life.

Kristen Ashley

#41. Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

Stephen King

#42. What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

Kadir Nelson

#43. I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

ASAP Ferg

#44. What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.

Jim Stengel

#45. If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

Warren Spector

#46. Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

Apolo Ohno

#47. Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

Jeff Lindsay

#48. The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

Martin McGuinness

#49. We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

Rick Warren

#50. People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

David LaChapelle

#51. We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

Susan Wojcicki

#52. I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

Raf Simons

#53. We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again ... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.

Doug Collins

#54. I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

Tessanne Chin

#55. Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.

Ha-Joon Chang

#56. When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Helen Mirren

#57. No one was created in vain

Sunday Adelaja

#58. To be a racing driver it's essential you have very good eyesight, and that's especially relevant at night. Your senses are heightened, you're travelling over 200mph, you need to focus on that 110-metre braking point and you have to have absolute faith and commitment in your driving.

Allan McNish

#59. I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.

Deborah Harkness

#60. Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

Tavis Smiley

#61. In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

Paul Dickson

#62. It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Samuel Wilson

#63. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.

Jonathan Culler

#64. Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Henri Queuille

#65. Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.

Dan Sperber

#66. If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

Alfonso Cuaron

#67. Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

Mike Davidson

#68. In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

Natalie Massenet

#69. Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

Sarah MacLean

#70. I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

Sadghuru

#71. Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

Ellen Hopkins

#72. As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected.

Geoff Johns

#73. When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

Kenneth A. Bollen

#74. Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Ian Somerhalder

#75. The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

James Collins

#76. Only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us at all times, as close and as relevant as life itself, and that this reality is nothing to fear but is a sacred truth to be praised.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#77. If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

Marisha Pessl

#78. The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative imagination rather than the image-generating faculty), personal (experiential) and factual memory, reasoning and selfconsciousness.

P.M.S. Hacker

#79. Perhaps the postponement in modern culture of the historically relevant challenges of adolescents,

Louis Cozolino

#80. I really want to get the word out that I am still relevant and have something to say.

Regina Belle

#81. I'm appreciative that somehow I've always found a way through the years to capture a new fan base and continue to remain relevant in some space and still make a living doing what I love - to me that's all that matters.

Justin Smith

#82. Unless it is relevant and accurate, knowledge can be the sinking ship the fool insists is sea-worthy, because knowledge often masquerades as wisdom.

Anonymous

#83. The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and relevant knowledge - other directors, artists, crew talent, and smart and fun people in other fields.

Liza Johnson

#84. My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Daniel Pipes

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

Richard Halverson

#86. I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

Christopher Tin

#87. They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Alexander Payne

#88. I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

Vir Das

#89. The history of inequality is shaped by the way economic, social, and political actors view what is just and what is not, as well as by the relative power of those actors and the collective choices that result. It is the joint product of all relevant actors combined.

Thomas Piketty

#90. I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

Ken Thompson

#91. We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

Ashton Carter

#92. Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.

Gabriel Iglesias

#93. One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While

Mortimer J. Adler

#94. I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

Neil Turok

#95. The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

Norman Spinrad

#96. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Michael Crichton

#97. Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.

Grimes

#98. You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

Lily Tomlin

#99. (for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time),

Nick Hornby

#100. When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

David Blunkett