Quotes About Context

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

There's power in turning to the past to illuminate the current state of things.

My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

We are historical beings, unable to describe ourselves without describing ourselves in space and time.

History matters. Facts matter. But above all else, context matters. Changing history and facts—canceling them as if they did not exist or changing them to suit some twenty-first-century weaponized truism is another form of propaganda and lie.

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them.

The effort of focusing all serious attention on a small number of books and authors is to diminish awareness of the richness and variety of children's literature. It becomes impossible to grasp the development of children's literature, or the context in which individual books were written. Ultimately, the study of children's literature is the poorer for ignoring so much fine material. And children are the poorer too, given fewer opportunities to hear of books that might enrich their lives.

The primary material conditions for the making of beauty have not changed. But the frame of attention, and the context of mattering—these have.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

What makes film music different is that we are always given a situation and we make the song accordingly.

My idea is to take the improvisational excitement that takes place with Carnatic music and juxtapose that in different sonic contexts.

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which you hear the music. For instance, listening to a piece of classical music in a film you love often changes your perception of it entirely.

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.