Contexts Quotes
53 quotes by 50 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.
— Eric Mazur
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there…
— Alan Kay
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
— Jay Maisel
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed…
— Peter Thiel
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
— Andrew Sullivan
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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
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It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.
— A.S.A. Harrison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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