Contexts Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a… — Tori Amos
The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from… — Max Wertheimer
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it… — Barbara Kruger
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and… — George W. S. Trow
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The word in language is half someone elseâ€™sâ€¦ it exists in other peopleâ€™s mouths, in other peopleâ€™s contexts, serving other peopleâ€™s intentions: it is from… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The real hallmark of learning is transferring what youâ€™ve learned into new contexts. — Eric Mazur
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there… — Alan Kay
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contextsâ€”mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge thatâ€™s generally suppressed… — Peter Thiel
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. — Andrew Sullivan
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts… — Theodore Zeldin
Itâ€™s a known fact that in certain contexts peopleâ€™s great strengths become their epic failings. — A.S.A. Harrison
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always… — John Quiggin
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. — Kenneth Lee Pike
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm… — Arthur Koestler
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in… — Paul Ricoeur
The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake… — Nathaniel Branden

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