Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A circuit judge might properly encourage the Supreme Court to reconsider holdings that are confusing or otherwise problematic in application, by pointing… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation -… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international"… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I asked myself, 'How are you going to change all these people, they have different values, different customs, different language, different interpretations?'… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Scriptural interpretation is properly an ecclesial activity whose goal is to participate in the reality of which the text speaks by bending… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“An interpretation of Jesus’ nature, identity, or role; for example, the Quran has a lower Christology than John, since he is just… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don’t really want to have to explain my work. What I wish… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...while there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
People will always interprete our actions base on the kind of relationship or connection we share with them. Hardly do these interpretations… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image