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Quotes About Context

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~ Rem Koolhaas
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
~ Barbara Kruger
Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.
~ Sonam Wangchuk
How I pick running backs, I always go off what situation they're in. I look at guys and what they had around them.
~ Frank Gore
It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
~ Walter Hill
Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.
~ Jo Brand
In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.
~ Steven Seagal
As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
~ Jason Silva
I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.
~ Babyface
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
~ Jonathan Coe
Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.
~ Philip Kerr
You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
~ Jason Alexander
'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that.
~ Joan Juliet Buck
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
~ Joseph Campbell
Love is a context, not a behavior.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different
~ Beverly Cleary
In breve, e come sempre, in Shakespeare un lettore attento può trovare sostegno per quasi qualsiasi posizione voglia prendere. (O come lo stesso Shakespeare ha scritto in una battuta citata spesso a sproposito: «Il diavolo può citare le Sacre Scritture per i propri fini».)
~ Bill Bryson
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything – It is relative size that matters, a point that is often overlooked.
~ Bill Bryson
polysemy, and it is very common. Sound is another polysemic word.
~ Bill Bryson
It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.
~ Bill Clinton
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God
~ Billy Corgan