Interpretation Quotes · Page 10

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.”

— Louis Althusser

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

— Sheena Iyengar

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

— Victor J. Stenger

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

— Lindsey Buckingham

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

— Riccardo Muti

“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one…

— Vivian Gornick

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

— Henry Reed

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

— William Jones

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was…

— Harry Connick, Jr

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do…

— Joel Sternfeld

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in…

— Erwin Schrodinger

I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of…

— Frank Moore Cross

Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as…

— Kirsten Powers

Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because…

— Richard Taverner

We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much…

— Mark Fisher

In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.…

— Thomas Aquinas

The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to…

— Michael Bloomberg

Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from…

— Sandra Scarr

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity…

— Susan Sontag

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming…

— Stephen Covey

I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The…

— Steve Odland

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural…

— Roland Barthes

Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of…

— Yuri Lotman

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

— Peter J. Carroll

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

— Peter Dunne

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

— Kenwa Mabuni

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

— Kay WalkingStick

I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.

— Jonathan Brandis

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in…

— W. I. Thomas

Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.

— Maajid Nawaz

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

— William James

When she offered me 'Arshinagar,' Aparna's interpretation of 'Romeo & Juliet,' my first instinct was to say no.

— Waheeda Rehman

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

— Alfred Adler

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

— David Eagleman

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

— Matt Smith

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

— Christina Baldwin

“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”

— Charles Simic