Irrelevant Quotes - Page 2

• Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

  James C. Collins

  People, Insightful, Vision

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• It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Victoria Moran

  What Matters, People, Way

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• Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pertinent Questions, May, Firsts

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

  Rands

  Design, Decision, Users

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• I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Labels, Groups, Enterprise

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Women, Silly

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• Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Struggle, Mass Destruction, Half

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• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Weakness, Tasks

  "The New Realities".

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• Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

  Janet Burroway

  Regret, Writing, Reflection

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• Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mean, Needs, Today

  J.P. Moreland (2014). “Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul”, p.14, Tyndale House

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Judgment, Subjective, Seems

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

  Ernst Mach

  Laughter, Science, Soul

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Racism, Looks

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• Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, House, Doe

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• I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

  Pam Gems

  Real, Thinking, Details

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

  Rick Moody

  Party, Paris, Important

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• Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

  Eric Fischl

  Education, Artist, Generations

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• On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  School, Science, Men

  "oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France" by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.

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• The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

  Mark Galli

  Doe, News, Belief

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books

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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Assessment, Needs, Errands

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

  Max Beckmann

  Blessed, Philosophical, Eye

  Max Beckmann, Guggenheim Museum Soho (1996). “Max Beckmann in exile”, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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• Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musician, Needs, Useless

  "Éventuellement... (Possibly...)". Essay by Pierre Boulez (1952) published in his book "Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship" (p. 133), 1991.

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