Interpretation Quotes - Page 27

• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  Roman Jakobson

  Running, Taken, Giving

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• Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

  Thomas Berry

  Future, New Experiences, Psychics

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.170, Crown

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• How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

  Tony Robbins

  How You Feel, Results, Feels

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• Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

  Byron Katie

  Children, Said, Heard

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Giving, Joy

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• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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• To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!

  Ezra Jack Keats

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

  Freeman Tilden

  Instruction, Chiefs, Aim

  Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Keys, Desire

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Art, Style, Ineptitude

  Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Philosophical, Mystery, Mathematics

  Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.143, Prometheus Books

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• Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation.

  Marshall Sylver

  Reality, Situation

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• But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Real, Ignorance, Ideas

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• I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.

  Tao Lin

  Sadness, Heart, Scary

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.146, Canongate Books

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• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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• It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Champion, Eras

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• The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Chess, Problem, Constant

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• Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

  George Orwell

  Business, Games, Dramatic

  1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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• The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the best part of his nature, which he obliviously passes on to the next generation of dreamers.

  Neel Burton

  Dream, Men, Historical

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• If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Way, Different Interpretations, Equal

  Paul Ricoeur (1976). “Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning”, p.79, TCU Press

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture... American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.

  Ilana Mercer

  Country, Intelligent, Light

  "Duck Dynasty: A Decoy For Dummies". American Daily Herald, December 27, 2013.

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• Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fighting, Government, Individual

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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