Quotes About Framing

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly 'finished' and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions

For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.

Era usted un buen fotógrafo porque fotografiar es encuadrar, y encuadrar es elegir y excluir. Salvar unas cosas y condenar otras. No todo el mundo puede hacer eso: erguirse juez de cuanto pasa alrededor. Nadie que ame de verdad puede dictar esa clase de sentencias.

It is a common folk theory of progressives that 'the facts will set you free.' If only you can get all the facts out there in the public eye, then every rational person will reach the right conclusion. It is a vain hope. Human brains just don't work that way. Framing matters. Frames once entrenched are hard to dispel.

Morally based framing is everybody's job. Especially reporters'.

This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.

One way for progressives to counter such hidden agendas is to discuss them openly. We need to get beyond how conservatives are framing the issues publicly and point out their real goals. And

You might think that the world exists independently of how we understand it. You would be mistaken. Our understanding of the world is part of the world—a physical part of the world. Our conceptual framings exist in physical neural circuitry in our brains, largely below the level of conscious awareness, and they define and limit how we understand the world, and so they affect our actions in the world.

Truth must be framed effectively to be seen at all.

Conservatives, through their think tanks, figured out the importance of framing, and they figured out how to frame every issue. They figured out how to get those frames out there, how to get their people in the media all the time.

Almost immediately after Obama's inauguration in 2009, the Republicans regained framing superiority in public discourse, and that played a major role in the ascendancy of the Tea Party in Congress and in state houses throughout the nation. Now Republicans are setting their framing sights on the cities as well as the states. What happened?

It is not an accident that conservatives are winning where they have successfully framed the issues. They've got a forty- to fifty-year head start. And more than two billion dollars in think tank investments.

Propaganda is another manipulative use of framing.

a basic principle of framing: When you are arguing against the other side, do not use their language. Their language picks out a frame—and it won't be the frame you want.

Can linguistic framing change the kind of person someone is? The answer seems to be yes, though possibly not in extreme cases.

But the facts have to be framed in appropriately moral terms so that they can be taken seriously.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

Homer, more than any other, has taught the rest of us the art of framing lies in the right way.

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

The way you state your problem frames your decision. It determines the alternatives you consider and the way you evaluate them. Posing the right problem drives everything else.

Framing the truth at the deepest moral level matters.