Context Quotes

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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. — Jack Horner
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the… — George Steiner
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are… — Hakim Bey
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud
The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the… — Matt Chandler
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to… — Jacques Ellul
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people… — danah boyd
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I… — Aasif Mandvi
Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection. — Beth Comstock
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist… — Hugh Prather
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as… — Joseph Campbell
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,… — Hermann Weyl
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye
Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called â€œThe Social Networkâ€] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to… — Marc Webb
Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little… — Joseph Sobran
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges… — Dan Meyer
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns,… — Marilyn Ferguson
Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God… — Tony Evans
The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of… — David Brooks
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up… — Joseph Brodsky

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