Context Quotes

638 quotes by 571 authors

It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least,… — Dan Rather
But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by… — Carter Heyward
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every… — Laura Chinchilla
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of… — George Steiner
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in… — Gunter Grass
The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to… — James Cromwell
So much of design is context. — Steve Madden
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. — Graham Nelson
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. — Daniel Okrent
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are… — Gustav Stresemann
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective. — Hedi Slimane
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to… — Jeffrey Sachs
That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an… — Will Ferrell
I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals! — Subb-an
... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results… — Paulo Freire
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that… — John Walford
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not… — Richard Pascale
I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening… — Aimee Mann
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. — Alfred Marshall

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