Best 43 quotes in «irrelevant quotes» category

We are so often steered by our leaders towards the irrelevant so as to overlook our main concerns.

When leaders do nothing about something relevant to their role, they become irrelevant.

To be irrelevant is to categorize your live into separate pursuit

When you pay cash for everything, your credit score becomes irrelevant.

Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They were part of the dream from which I recognized the Welches, my defeat-dream, my damnation-dream, with its solemn choreography of earnest useless acts.

You ask me what it means to be irrelevant? The feeling is akin to visiting your old house as a wandering ghost with unfinished business. Imagine going back: the structure is familiar ,but the door is now metal instead of wood,the walls have been painted a garish pink ,the easy chair you loved so much is gone .Your office is now the family room and your beloved bookcases have been replaced by a brand-new television set . This is your house,and it is not. And you are no longer relevant to this house , to its walls and doors and floors ; you are not seen .

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

When leaders do nothing about something relevant to their their role, they become irrelevant.

When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

Words are just words, Who they come from gives them Relevance, And this Relevance gives them the Power to Hurt you. Make those who Hurt you Irrelevant.

All Playboy bunnies were constantly reminded that the TV show was Hugh Hefner's show - our contributions were irrelevant. We were the decorative icing, not the cake. According to our boyfriend, he could have splashed any three blondes on-screen and found instant success.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

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

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

I worry a great deal about all of those surveys that are out that Americans, in particular, are becoming distrustful of our institutions - that Americans are beginning to say they're either irrelevant or they're corrupt or they certainly don't speak to me. But the institutions are actually still functioning.

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

People are irrelevant. They're as irrelevant as many other prominent leftists are.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every country!

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

We always remember best the irrelevant.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. That emotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred.

He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty. Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that he was thirty-five and a half, exactly five years older than she. Their birthdays were two days apart. It was absurd the way trivial facts lingered in the memory, facts as unimportant as what she had for dinner on Tuesday. Except that she couldn't remember last week's menu and she was annoyingly aware of Max Quinton's preference for lamb over beef, for apple tart over syllabub. He preferred Shakespeare to the modern poets, the country to the town.

If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!

Irrelevance only creeps up on you if you let it.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

Specialists will continue to lose not because of automation, but because of the imprisonment of industrial isolation. Leaders and innovators who stay relevant see the interconnectedness of a broad use of skillsets that specialists can’t see and use creativity to solve problems in times of complexity.

Sir Maugre’s erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it.