Quotes About Context

Leaders and managers please bake your content cake with context chocolate – it looks better & goes down easier...

[W]ell I know that no man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art – not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?

What does this mean?" What has to be explained so that my listeners will understand the passage? Does the biblical writer explain his statements or define his terms? Does he assume that the original readers understood him and needed no explanation? Are there concepts, terms, or connections that modern listeners might not understand that you need to explain to them?

every word, every sentence, has three possible meanings: what the speaker intends it to mean, what the hearer understands it to mean, and what it is commonly understood to mean.

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus it the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God.

As One and Unique, and yet as one who is to be understood only in the context of mankind's entire history and in the context of the whole created cosmos, Jesus is the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God.

When you have been hurt by life, it may be hard to keep that in mind. When you are standing very close to a large object, all you can see is the object. Only by stepping back from it can you also see the rest of its setting around it. When we are stunned by some tragedy, we can only see and feel the tragedy. Only with time and distance can we see the tragedy in the context of a whole life and a whole world.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man — he must view the man in his world.

But we can only be evolved in the same context in which we were lost—that is, in relationship. We are born into relationship. Our personalities are formed by relationship. And, we are healed in relationship. Relationship holds both the evidence of our injuries and the means of our salvation. It's the way we become who we are.

Before you judge another remind yourself you don't know their life history to understand why they behave as they do!

the history of science cannot be written by pulling scientific 'firsts' out of their historical context, but only by seeing with eyes and minds of our historical characters.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

the phrase "lion's share" here means "the biggest part" and has nothing to do with lions or sharing-

Like an envelope, a hollow figurine, and a coffin, a refrigerator can hold all sorts of things, and they may turn out to be very important depending on what kind of day you are having.

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

biographical information needs to be understood within its immediate context, not through the bias of another cultural moment.

Making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning.

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.