Quotes About Context

Create different desktop patterns on them so that the visual cues help to remind you, and put you in the proper place-memory context, of each computer's domain.

Just because someone quotes you a statistic or shows you a graph, it doesn't mean it's relevant to the point they're trying to make. It's the job of all of us to make sure we get the information that matters, and to ignore the information that doesn't.

El izquierdo se centra en el texto; el derecho tiene que ver con el contexto.

Denial of our emotions isn't the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain. We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a specialty of the right brain). This is part of what causes your eight-year-old to become defensive and angry sometimes when you innocently joke around with her. Remember that the right brain is in charge of reading nonverbal cues.

Denial of our emotions isn't the only danger we face when we rely too heavily on our left brain. We can also become too literal, leaving us without a sense of perspective, where we miss the meaning that comes from putting things in context (a specialty of the right brain).

If action scenes just happen decontextualized, they lose their weight and the viewer can feel they don't make sense and that they wouldn't have happened that way.

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out, but I think, in making judgements, we're getting into tricky territory.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Why argue that it was "only words" except to imply that words are trivial, neither serious nor harmful, an argument that at the least elides the issue of what exactly was said and by whom.10

Situational ethics?

The illusion that there might be a single, correct, absolute answer independently of context, purpose and perspective, that is independently of the relevant interface, leads to paradoxical nonsense.

The whole panorama makes me realize how small I am, in the grand scheme of things. How insignificant my problems are when you zoom out and out and out and see the whole of the world.

A severe example is the common modern American phrase "I could care less," which, it turns out, means the same thing as "I couldn't care less.

The most reliable way of determining what a word in a dead language means is to see how the word is used in context. Once

the prophetic story that is unfolding, it revolves around Israel. Any effort to understand the story of the end times must begin by grasping this simple reality. This is the context of the Bible.

T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

Toxic shame results from the unexpected exposure of vulnerable aspects of a child's self. This exposure takes place before the child has any ego boundaries to protect herself. Early shaming events happen in a context where the child has no ability to choose. The felt experience of shame is being exposed and seen when one is not ready to be seen.

Even the right thing said in the wrong situation won't connect.

Its funny how when you call a girl a bi... she get so pissed, but once you add a bad in front of it, it becomes a compliment.