Relevance Quotes

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

“As we are whiling away days of idleness, time may flow rashly through the screen of our thoughts and veil the relevance of individual fragments in our story. The clock of reality can arrest us, though, and compel us to confront the demands of the truth. ("Non mais, t'as vu l'heure !")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.”
― Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

“Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.”
― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

“Once achieved, maintaining relevance requires constant listening, questioning, prototyping and testing.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The bar to become and remain relevant is higher than ever. You need to run faster to stay in the same place, or even likely end up behind. There is a new premium on staying relevant.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The Red Queen Race necessitates being fast and astute. Speed alone is insufficient.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Physically agile, this squishy strategist and tentacled tactician uses its intelligence and agency to intuit situations, anticipate outcomes, invent solutions, and improvise, remaining relevant for nearly 300 million years.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because the idiom of life is always changing”
― William F. Buckley Jr.

“You must add value to yourself to be relevant”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to be competitive to be relevant”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The bar to become and remain relevant is higher than ever.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“No one was created in vain”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When you increase and multiply, you get much more influence and reach beyond your imagination”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You must be able to bring relevance to people”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Tyler: Do you know what a duvet is?

Narrator: A comforter.

Tyler: It’s a blanket. Just a blanket.
Why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is?
Is this essential to our survival
in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?
No.
What are we, then?

Narrator: I don’t know. Consumers?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The notions of relevance, necessity, the point of something, are a thousand times more significant than the notion of truth. Not as substitutes for truth, but as the measure of the truth of what I’m saying. It’s the same in mathematics: Poincaré used to say that many mathematical theories are completely irrelevant, pointless; He didn’t say they were wrong – that wouldn’t have been so bad.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“You can only heal
when you realize
no one gives a fuck
about you.”
― Sharky Rich

“Branding is the entrepreneur's spotlight.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Your name can be your brand if your name carries enough weight.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Relevance isn’t about constantly running to stay ahead. It’s about adapting with purpose, knowing when to learn, when to lead, and when to let your strengths do the talking.”
― Janani Srikanth, Fear OFF Work: Psychological Tools To Overcome Workplace Fears

“The natural is your only passport to relevance in the 21st century.”
― ‘Yemi Success, MD

“Evolutionary pressure prioritizes relevance. The pressure is on us to make more thoughtful and informed decisions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Though salience learned intuition’s call:
Through sapience learned in tuition’s hall (p. 71).”
― Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth, Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry