Interpreting Quotes

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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people… — Gabriel Byrne
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them… — Joseph Campbell
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system… — Deepak Chopra
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. — Margaret Fuller
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it… — Oswald Chambers
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a… — Matthieu Ricard
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all.… — Rajneesh
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us… — Susan Sontag
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts… — Aberjhani
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. — Cary Cooper
The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. — Julius Thomas Fraser
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be… — James MacGregor Burns
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their… — Epictetus
As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere… — Karl Mannheim
Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way., I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is… — Jasper Johns
Iâ€™ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago. — Murray Gell-Mann

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