Quotes About Context

My point is, I have a job, just like you. I get a paycheck, I get memos. Just like you, I have superiors, and they have superiors who I am not allowed to speak to. Orders filter down from on high, arriving at my level stripped entirely of all context or rationale or justification. Orders do not come with an illustration of how they serve the overall goals of the organization. Same as any other job.

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.

When you take The Creator out of the picture, you are left without a frame

When you take God out of the picture you are left without a frame

The differentiations of the modern world have the same structure as tourist attractions: elements dislodged from their original natural, historical and cultural contexts fit together with other such displaced or modernized things and people. The differentiations are the attractions

Sometimes is it okay to perpetuate the hoax of sincerity leading a centralized self to commodified epiphanic end-stops even though the context is perpetually deferred and everything flies apart especially me-ee-eee-eeee? Even

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

We shall adopt an analogous formula, with the reservation that feelings and cognitive configurations do not depend solely on the existing "field," but also on the whole previous history of the acting subject.

Les mots visibles sont comme des points de repère dans l'étendu. La signification de chacun d'eux est à la fois ponctuelle et tourbillonante; le sens nait de leur rapprochement comme l'éclair du choc électrique des nuages.

Trauma is as subjective as desire, and the meanings we attribute to experiences, as well as the context in which they occur, determine their ultimate effect on our lives.

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

Stories get their name from how they should be used, not what should be written.

In the city, the line between nightmare and reality was fluid, just as the context of the words killer and death had shifted over time. Perhaps Mord was responsible. Perhaps we all were.

Without context, clinging to those numbers was a form of madness.

The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.

In simplicity is such guiding truth. I turn again to the spirituals. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" could also be an epigraph to this book, if it were not understood as being simply a merry exhortation. It was, after all, best known as an anthem during the mighty struggles of the civil rights movement. That beautifully repeated let it shine, let it shine, let it shine performs the will to live in the context of mighty, life-and-death struggle.