Quotes About Context

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.

When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.

As a storyteller, dates and time equal context.

We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it going to be on television? Is it print? And now the canvas is mobile. But what we really need to think about is the context. The context is where and when the person is consuming it - location, time of day.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

His development plans were all set in a united Ireland context. The rivers Erne and Bann lie in the Six Counties but in 1922 Collins was writing about methods which would,'utilise the water-power of the Shannon, the Erne, the Bann and the Liffey.

We see a seventeenth-century goblet and think: That is what a seventeenth-century goblet looks like, and isn't it remarkably like/unlike (choose one) goblets today? We tend not to think: What is a goblet doing there? Who made it? Where did it come from? Why did the artist choose to include it instead of something else, a teacup, say, or a glass jar?

verdad es que el entorno que te rodea sí importa.»

The Macedonians gave in the context of their lack of resources.

Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.

The timed email bombs of the 2016 presidential campaign were also a powerful form of disinformation. Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification. What is worse, when media followed the email bombs as if they were news, they betrayed their own mission.

A sense of immediacy prevails in the society of enjoyment to such an extent that events seem meaningless—as if they occur outside of any context that might allow us to decipher them. What is lacking is a sense of universality that would mediate particular events and render them comprehensible.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.