Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a… — Deborah Tannen
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations,… — Mooji
What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach… — Yuna
Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation. — Marshall Sylver
The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding… — Shams Tabrizi
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to… — Susan Sontag
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's… — Diane Wakoski
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken… — David Simon
Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room… — Stephen Colbert
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying. — Pat Paulsen
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. — Dustin Hoffman
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are… — Daniel Pinchbeck
Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data. — Bruce H. Lipton
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether… — Austin Bradford Hill
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that… — Epictetus
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more… — Jonah Goldberg
I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described… — Tao Lin
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of… — Hugo Black
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly… — Stephen Breyer

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