Quotes About Context

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Another holds that while religious statements are referential, and subject to discussion they only have meaning within their own context and cannot be discussed productively from any outside point of view.

History, moreover, is a matter not only of sources but also of interpretation

The need to adapt is nothing new; after all, Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are finished changing, you are finished." What is new is how often we need to change, the pace at which we need to move, and the complexity and volatility of the context in which we are operating.

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

there is a radical underdetermination of what is said by the literal meaning of the sentence. There is nothing in the literal meaning of the sentence "She gave him her key and he opened the door" to block the interpretation, He opened the door with her key by bashing the door down with the key; the key weighed two hundred pounds and was in the shape of an axe. Or, He swallowed both the door and the key and he inserted the key in the lock by the peristaltic contraction of his gut.

Falsafah tidak pernah terlepas daripada sejarah. Kadang-kadang saya terfikir ada bagusnya jika saya terus menyata kebenaran tentang sesebuah soalan kepada pelajar saya lalu mengakhiri syarahan. Tetapi pendekatan membelakangi sejarah sedemikian rupa cenderung menghasil kedangkalan falsafah.

In a normal literal utterance of each of these sentences, each verb has a constant meaning. There is no lexical ambiguity or metaphorical usage involved. But in each case the same verb will determine different truth conditions or conditions of satisfaction generally, because what counts as cutting or growing will vary with the context. If

nothing in the literal meaning of those sentences blocks those wrong interpretations. In each case we understand the verb differently, even though its literal meaning is constant, because in each case our interpretation depends on our Background abilities.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

O comportamento humano nos contextos das redes operacionais frequentemente se assemelha a um ato dramático — se adéqua a um roteiro produzido para satisfazer as demandas de um enredo.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Social psychologists argue that who we are at any one time depends mostly on the context in which we find ourselves. But who creates the context? The more mindful we are, the more we can create the contexts we are in. When we create the context, we are more likely to be authentic. Mindfulness lets us see things in a new light and believe in the possibility of change.

Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability.

This ability to transcend context is the essence of mindfulness and central to creativity in any field.

I am, instead, suggesting that we let rules and routines guide our behavior but question them as we find ourselves in new and different contexts.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!

these women and men were able to sustain work "outside of the employment context," to cobble together not only a better living but a more meaningful life.

She is not a toy, Mr. Towns, she is an airplane.

History: a context in which the capital letters decompose, and with them, the men who imagine and cherish them.