Quotes About Context

My point here is that no Jew before Christianity was on the scene ever interpreted such passages as referring to the messiah.

for the purposes of this chapter, I am principally interested in what Jews of the time thought about God and the divine realm, since it is these thoughts that can make sense of how a man like Jesus could be considered divine.

It was in such a context that Trotsky scorned "papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life," and Lenin

The very language of "daily planning" focuses on the urgent—the "now." While third generation prioritization provides order to activity, it doesn't question the essential importance of the activity in the first place—it doesn't place the activity in the context of principles, personal mission, roles, and goals.

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

When you can present your own ideas clearly, specifically, visually, and most important, contextually—in the context of a deep understanding of other people's paradigms and concerns—you significantly increase the credibility of your ideas.

He'd read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His

What we are engaged in creating is the opportunity for people to participate in the transformation of people's lives and of life itself. This context of transformation is a context of freedom and opportunity, of empowerment and human joy, of contribution and of participation. Participation in this transformation is, for me, the fullest expression of being. ~ Werner Erhard

This relationship is learned over hundreds if not thousands of examples; what is consistent across examples is not the content of the answer but rather the context, or perspective, from which the answer occurs. That is the case with all other deictic frames, such as I/you, we/they, and now/then.

The "I/here/nowness" of consciousness itself is an aspect of self that transcends any particular content of awareness—it is the context of verbal knowing itself.

If mutation and error and serendipity unlock new doors in the biosphere's adjacent possible, exaptations help us explore the new possibilities that lurk behind those doors. A match you light to illuminate a darkened room turns out to have a completely different use when you open a doorway and discover a room with a pile of logs and a fireplace in it. A tool that helps you see in one context ends up helping you keep warm in another. That's the essence of exaptation.

If we want to understand where good ideas come from, we have to put them in context.

Emoticons as a new class of oversignifying precision grammar.

Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading.

Radical Pragmatics – "words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.

men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they make it under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.

According to Radical Pragmatics, a permanently existing conceptual structure underlying the meaning of a word is also as mythical as the Jack of Spades, because people can use a word to mean almost anything, depending on the context.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it is also about the relation of words to other human concerns.

The problem with dystopian rhetoric is that if people believe that the country is a flaming dumpster, they will be receptive to the perennial appeal of demagogues: "What do you have to lose?" If the media and intellectuals instead put events into statistical and historical context, they could help answer that question.

The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.

Did i say something wrong?" "Well, in your defense, there is no right thing to say.

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message.

The way I would talk to a platoon of SEALs would be very different than the way I would talk to a 60 year old COPD patient.

How hard someone [a child] is hit, and why they are hit, cannot merely be ignored when speaking of hitting. Timing, part of context, is also of crucial importance.