Context Quotes · Page 4

“Context is all; or is it ripeness? One or the other.”

— Margaret Atwood

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

— Frederick Lenz

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

— Nitin Sawhney

In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

— Flume

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

— JR

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

— Gregory Bateson

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

— Alden Ehrenreich

“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before”

— Terry Marselle

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

— Daisy Whitney

“The Power of Context is an environmental argument. It says that behavior is a function of social context.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be…

— Erik Spoelstra

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly…

— Mo Ibrahim

I started hearing Snapchat in the same context as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. That got me curious.

— Mitch Lasky

People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].

— Keli Goff

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks…

— Antony Beevor

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's…

— Rory Stewart

If you're anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that…

— Hari Nef

“Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has…

— Julian Fellowes

I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned…

— Gina Haspel

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I think where a lot of the stuff came from is that it started as something else and then it was transformed…

— Adam Granduciel

For me, one of the lessons from 9/11 is that you have to give the organization context for how you're acting, and…

— Kenneth Chenault

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of…

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or…

— Tao Lin

“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness;…

— Roland Barthes

“All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd…

— Iain Banks

To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout…

— David Hawkins

“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.”

— Herman Cain

I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.

— Helen Oyeyemi

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context...

— Aberjhani

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

— Twyla Tharp

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

— John Szarkowski

“Put your past into context, live the first day of your best life.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me”

— John le Carré

When scoops are just tweeted out, I think a lot of the context can be lost.

— Ed Henry

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

— Ani DiFranco

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

— Dan Simmons

“With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.”

— Neil Postman

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

— Sharon Salzberg