Interpretation Quotes

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Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people hear anything that… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only… — Robert Anton Wilson
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any… — Arthur Machen
It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders… — Tom Udall
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do… — William J. Brennan
You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your… — Kevin DeYoung
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.… — John Berger
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none… — Randolph Bourne
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the… — W. Eugene Smith
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the… — Otto Weininger
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. — Che Guevara
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct â€” if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. — W. Ian Thomas
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other… — Patricia Hill Collins
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there… — Charles Ives
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can… — Murray Gell-Mann
To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being… — Mark Doty

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