Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

Caroline Gordon

There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.

Elizabeth Kenny

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Aldous Huxley

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Aldous Huxley

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Gary Hamel

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Ian Mcewan

one could drown in irrelevance.

Os Guinness

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

Eric Schmidt

Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.

Lou Rossi

More than 50% of innovation comes from the voice of the customer.

Diane Paulus

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Dean Kamen

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Ludwig von Mises

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

Aaron Levie

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

Alan Greenspan

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

David Suzuki

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.