Interpretation Quotes - Page 33

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

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• The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Differences, Destruction, Stimulation

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• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Bills, Troops

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed,
  they were tortured interpretations of a document
  [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

  Rexford Tugwell

  Constitution, Deals, Policy

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• When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.

  Chico Xavier

  Religious, Book, Giving

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• The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

  Joshua Bell

  Way, Performing, Best Way

  FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 15, 2015

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• I don't believe my interpretation's inerrant. I don't believe anybody else's interpretation is inerrant, but I do believe the scripture is inerrant. I believe in the plenary, verbal plenary inspiration of scripture, without a doubt.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Inspiration, Doubt

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

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• The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.

  Julian Huxley

  Cat, Fading, Way

  'Religion without Revelation' (1957 ed.) ch. 3

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• To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modelling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make strong conclusions based on mere correlation of two (or more) time series.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Strong, Two, Long

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• Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Book, Air

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• I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

  Vladimir Ashkenazy

  Believe, Glasses, Window

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• I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Having Fun, Different

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the obligation, I think we're all individuals on this planet, trying to scratch our way through the day, and if you're writing a book exposing atrocities in Rwanda or writing a murder mystery set in a mountain village, I think both ways of spending you time are valid and both books are probably fine to read.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Moral, Kind, Republican

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this view, Schrödinger's set-up will give rise to in two future branches of reality, one with a live cat, and one with a dead cat - and the talk of '50% chances' just indicates that the two branches are both equally real futures of the cat that originally entered the box.

  David Papineau

  Real, Cat, Views

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.

  Robert Davi

  Art, Listening, Singing

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• It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Thinking, Different

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Morning, Party, June

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.

  Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

  Writing, Want, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Drawing, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was

  Ric Ocasek

  Song, Mean, Eye

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• Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

  Drew Gilpin Faust

  Past, Innovation, Needs

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• Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

  Freddie Mercury

  Strong, Queens, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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