Quotes About Context

To alter the way you are being, you must engage with the phenomenon of context. Context is the human environment that determines the limitations of your actions and the scope of the results your actions can produce.

Language is the only leverage for changing the context of the world around you. This is because people apprehend and construct reality through the way they speak and listen.

Transformation An alteration in the arena of context. You alter the way you are being to create results that are not currently possible. Transformation provides the creation of that which does not yet exist in the organization and its leaders—a new realm of possibility leading to a new realm of results.

Those who have experienced trauma may find that they blow up in response to minor provocations, freeze when frustrated, or become helpless in the face of trivial challenges. This inflexibility diminishes the capacity to choose, and without understanding the context of the reactions, their behavior can appear bizarre or out of control. "Neuroimaging

Once organizational health is properly understood and placed into the right context, it will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage.

Meetings are ineffective because they lack contextual structure. Too many organizations have only one kind of regular meeting, often called a staff meeting. Either once a week or twice a month, people get together for two or three hours of randomly focused discussion about everything from strategy to tactics, from administrivia to culture. Because there is no clarity around what topics are appropriate, there is no clear context for the various discussions that take place.

She is skilled at communicating the 'context' for her comments with the goal of ensuring understanding.

I have seized upon documents, poems, letters; in short, j'ai pris mon bien là où je l'ai trouvé, and within a context of general historical accuracy I have changed names, places and minor events to suit my tale.

Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.

Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a gallery.

Everything I do is the environment.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.