Context Quotes

638 quotes by 572 authors

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. — Twyla Tharp
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context. — Alan King
Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context. — David Byrne
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context. — Ryan Holmes
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. — Jason Calacanis
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of… — David Perlmutter
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and… — Richard Bausch
Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional to the mass… — John Romaniello
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then… — Rachel Joyce
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and… — Albert Murray
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is… — Jason Silva
When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it. — Peter T. King
Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. — Keith Ellison
The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized… — Michelle Grabner
Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to… — Joseph Edward Kurtz
The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next… — Jill Greenberg
I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules. — Helen Oyeyemi
You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to… — Sharlto Copley
In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in… — Seth Shostak

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