quotes about Interpretation
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It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
-- Alfred Adler -
I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
-- Andre Kertesz -
I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.
-- Andrej Pejic -
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
-- Antonin ScaliaSource : "Antonin Scalia's legacy: Extraordinary writing, and upholding the rule of law" by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, theweek.com. February 13, 2016.
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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
-- Bridget RileySource : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
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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 -
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
-- Damon Lindelof -
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
-- Dan ReynoldsSource : "‘It’s Time’ for Imagine Dragons: An Interview With Front Man Dan". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
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Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
-- Dana GioiaSource : Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr
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I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.
-- David Gilmour -
The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.
-- Devdutt Pattanaik -
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Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
-- Edward Said -
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
-- Eric Bana -
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
-- Freeman TildenSource : Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
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It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.
-- Garth Stein -
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
-- Greg L. Bahnsen -
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.
-- Hermann Hesse -
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
-- Ian CurtisSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I am an interpreter of interpretations
-- James DelingpoleSource : "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.
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I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,
-- Janelle MonaeSource : "Janelle Monáe: 'I'm a time traveller. I have been to lots of different places'". Interview With Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2013.
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I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
-- Johan Huizinga -
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
-- John Buchanan Robinson -
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
-- John Felstiner -
Less information often leads to more interpretation.
-- John Paul Caponigro -
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.
-- John von NeumannSource : John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.628, World Scientific
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I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
-- Joshua BellSource : FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 15, 2015
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The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.
-- Josiah RoyceSource : Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.324, Paulist Press
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Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.
-- Lou Andreas-Salomé -
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Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!
-- Luigi Pirandello -
Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
-- Maynard James Keenan -
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
-- Oliver Stone -
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
-- Oliver Stone -
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
-- Pablo Casals -
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 RicoeurSource : Paul Ricoeur (1976). “Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning”, p.79, TCU Press
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We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
-- Peter J. CarrollSource : "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.
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My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.
-- Rachel Held EvansSource : Rachel Held Evans (2010). “Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions”, p.195, Harper Collins
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Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations
-- Rad Hourani -
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.
-- Rebecca L. WalkowitzSource : Rebecca L. Walkowitz (2012). “Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation”, p.145, Columbia University Press
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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 -
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Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
-- Reza AslanSource : Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.19, Random House
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You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
-- Riccardo Muti -
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
-- Robert Frost -
I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.
-- Robert SpencerSource : "Honesty is the best policy, Bob". Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), July 19, 2007.
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Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.
-- Ruggiero Ricci -
I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.
-- Sammy Gravano -
We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.
-- Sheena Iyengar -
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
-- Sheldon B. Kopp -
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The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.
-- Starhawk -
We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.
-- Stephen YoungSource : Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.14, McGraw Hill Professional
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An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?
-- Steven Berkoff -
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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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 -
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
-- Uta HagenSource : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
-- Walter Benjamin -
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Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
-- William WhewellSource : William Whewell (1847). “The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History: In Two Volumes”, p.443
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Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.
-- Camille HenrotSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.
-- Frank Moore Cross -
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I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.
-- Hugh Hendry -
Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.
-- Leon V. DePoncins -
The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that's how you'll see the Sharia.
-- Mark Durie -
But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.
-- Martin Schulz -
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Some people say I'm a gender bender. Whether that's right I leave up for interpretation.
-- Olof Arnalds -
The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia -
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 -
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
-- Thomas Steinbeck -
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My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
-- Bill Jay -
The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.
-- Bernard Ramm -
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
-- Carl Gustav HempelSource : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand
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The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.
-- Roland BarthesSource : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.
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... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.
-- Ronald Fisher -
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.
-- Rose LeslieSource : "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.
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Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.
-- Henry Reed -
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.
-- Henry Reed -
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I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
-- Jenkin Lloyd JonesSource : Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS