Quotes About Context

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it's story.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The self-evident truths announced in the Declaration of Independence are not truths at all, if taken literally; and the practical conclusions contained in the same passage of that Declaration prove that they were never designed to be so received.

client openness versus defensiveness, change talk versus sustain talk, is very much a product of the therapeutic relationship. "Resistance" and motivation occur in an interpersonal context.

Blake, I know you don't live on Butt St, Uranus.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

To know and admire history's heroes involves a knowledge of the full historical context they lived in, warts and all, in order to see clearly how they changed that world for the better.

Well I've fucked the olives. Not literally I might hasten to add!

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

The Bible had become a compendium of 'proof-texts', picked out at will and used to support almost anything a preacher wanted

metaphor' itself is not a static, ahistorical term; it is not as though there is a pervasive, universal concept of metaphor which can be applied, like a template, to all ages and cultures.

metaphors themselves are time-bound and ideologically motivated.

Identifying the new virus was only step one in solving the immediate mystery of Hendra, let alone understanding the disease in a wider context. Step two would involve tracking that virus to its hiding place. Where did it exist when it wasn't killing horses and people? Step three would entail asking a further cluster of questions: How did the virus emerge from its secret refuge, and why here, and why now?

Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons

Too many of us unconsciously believe that a well-studied understanding of our cultural context, rather than the Bible, is the key to preaching with power.

Contextualization in preaching is communicating the gospel message in ways that are understandable or appropriate to the listener's cultural context.

If we don't consider the gospel context of the Bible as a whole, even well-exegeted imperatives turn into moralism. And this fosters a legalistic culture in our churches.

A faithful preacher starts the sermon preparation process by paying attention to a biblical text's original audience and a text's purposes for those readers. He 1) gives the biblical context control over the meaning of the text; 2) listens intently until he knows how the text fits within the overall message of the book; 3) sees the structure and emphasis of the text.

Todo esto empieza a hacer que el hábito de los antropólogos de colocar a los nobles yurok o a los artistas kwakiutl juntos en el saco de forrajeadores opulentos o cazadores-recolectores complejos parezca un tanto estúpido: el equivalente a afirmar que un ejecutivo petrolero de Texas y un poeta egipcio medieval son agriculturalistas complejos porque comen un montón de trigo.