Quotes About Context

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

Como en el resto de las tendencias destructivas, el hecho de que el empleo del maltrato tenga una lógicas adaptativa subyacente no significa que debamos aceptarlo, desearlo o descuidar su erradicación. Por el contrario, una mayor comprensión de la lógica que subyace a tales tácticas y de los contextos en que se producen puede llevar a métodos más eficaces para reducirlas o eliminarlas.

Father, the boy repeats. --- You're not going to kill me, are you? --- Of course not.

It wasn't where they belonged, necessarily. It was just where they ended up.

He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?

The only thing to see is the obligatory third-world Coke billboard, ironic in exact proportion to the distance from its proper American context. This one says COKE—MAKE IT REAL. Just after the Coke sign there is a contrary sign, an indication that irony is not a currency in Liberia. It is worn by a girl who leans against the exit in a T-shirt that says THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

Nothing is absolute in security.

You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.

I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

You can joke about anything. It just depends on your angle and the way you go about it.

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

Há, sem dúvida, pessoas que não têm o mesmo aspecto nem o mesmo valor, quando separadas das pessoas, das coisas, dos lugares que lhes servem de moldura.

Hay ciertas personas que no tienen ya el mismo valor una vez separadas de los rostros, de las cosas y de los lugares que les sirven de marco.

Less happily, many who are capable of exhibiting significant understanding appear deficient, simply because they cannot readily traffic in the commonly accepted coin of the educational realm. For instance, there is a significant population that lacks facility with formal examinations but can display relevant understanding when problems arise in natural contexts.

By the time the child has reached the age of seven or so, his development has become completely intertwined with the values and goals of the culture. Nearly all learning will take place in one or another cultural context; aids to his thinking will reside in many other human beings as well as in a multitude of cultural artifacts. Far from being restricted to the individual's skull, cognition and intelligence become distributed across the landscape.

He explained in detail how important it was to use circumstances. He said where you are is what you are, and how you are, and what you can be.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

Adrian Forty was perhaps the first person to propose that the surprise answer to the missing term in the old equation, architecture = buildings + x, was words. If that's right, as I am increasingly persuaded, it explains why so much talk and writing envelops the practice of design.

She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was.

Most information doesn't constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that's a very different concept from information.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.