Context Quotes
638 quotes by 572 authors
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in…
— Raymond Queneau
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In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were…
— Robert Mueller
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Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
— Bell Hooks
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In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the…
— Barack Obama
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I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These…
— Ken Wilber
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So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible…
— James Turrell
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I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going to be exhibited.…
— Shahzia Sikander
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As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
— Daisy Whitney
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Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at…
— Graham Joyce
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Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today…
— Carlo Petrini
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Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it…
— Kenneth C. Davis
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In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think…
— Alan Guth
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Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has…
— Colleen Jones
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I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.
— Kevin Jorgeson
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The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word…
— Tom Turner
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Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes…
— John Hamill
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