Quotes About Context

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean . This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary...

A lot of historical writing has been characterized as ODTAA—"one damn thing after another"—without an effort to extract general rules or causal theories that can be applied in other circumstances.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

Proper DJs don't just trot out a load of nice tunes, they think carefully about the time, the place, and the people in front of them, and choose something that's perfect.

You little belter,' she whooped. I took that as a compliment.

That's what teaching mostly is, the reinterpretation of familiar things in a new context.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

defined self-socialization: "The process whereby children influence the direction and outcomes of their development through selective attention, imitation, and participation in particular activities and modalities of interaction that function as key contexts of socialization.

First, the behavior should not follow directly from present needs and desires. Second, it should prepare the individual for a future situation in a different context than the current one. The girl needed a spoon not in bed, but at the chocolate pudding party she expected in her dream.11

His reaction looked very much like anger, with threatening gestures, raised voice, and a purple face. But his anger was triggered by apprehension and was mixed with hope that some good discipline might keep me from being so stupid again. It sure did! My point here is that every display of emotion needs to be judged in a wider context. A single label rarely suffices. To call my father's state "angry" fails to do it justice without also mentioning love and worry.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Listening with your body, participating in the context, is so powerful precisely because it removes one of the greatest tools of listening and the greatest potential for bias: the question. Often, as we're articulating the questions we ask in field research, the patterns we think we'll see or the patterns we'd like to see start to get embedded in the question. In these cases, the question can become the enemy of the truth.

Context, as we will explore it in this chapter, is comprised of the spaces we inhabit, the things in those spaces, and the positions we choose to take in that space. It is a mistake to think of context as "just in the background." The context of a conversation can affect the course of a conversation, the feel of it, the outcome; it can even determine what kind of conversations we have.

if the Bible was meant to say anything, it was meant to say it within a community,

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

Il vaut peut-être la peine de mentionner dans ce contexte un phénomène aussi déplacé qu'irritant, à savoir le philosophe ou soi-disant tel qui croit pouvoir étayer ses thèses aberrantes au moyen de romans et de pièces de théâtre, ce qui revient à inventer des histoires de fous pour prouver que deux et deux font cinq

Perhaps it is worthwhile mentioning in this context a phenomenon as uncalled for as it is irritating, and that is the philosopher, or the so-called philosopher, who imagines he can support his aberrant theses by means of novels and plays, which amounts to inventing aberrant stories in order to prove that two and two make five

I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained.