Top 258 Relevance Quotes & Sayings

I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.

The relevance of beauty pageants in the Philippines is that it gives people hope.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

We have to convince people about the relevance of regional parties, and we are doing that.

By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance. . . . The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat.

The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.

Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

When you sit around at dinner talking about the death penalty, it's hard to find relevance in what color shoes will be next season.

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

Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

Girls and women are more likely to continue with their education if they feel the curriculum has some relevance to their own lives and is taught in a culturally sensitive way.

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.

Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection.

Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

I don't see the relevance in a teacher becoming a member of the Rotary Club, how that is going to improve student achievement.

What keeps me awake at night is the issue of relevance of the United Nations.

Issues that have relevance to the tribal community have routinely been minimized and ignored.

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

I'm not a huge fan of Britney Spears' music but I very much understand her relevance.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

I'm being probably naïve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you see some relevance in it to your own life, then it's a little bit harder, maybe, to look at the people that produced it as being just exotic others that don't have any connection to you or relevance to you.

For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

We believe in global scalability with local relevance.

There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

If we had picked Manziel, he'd guarantee our relevance for 10 years.

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.

Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.