Quotes About Context

For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

I'm not going to speculate about legislation that I haven't seen before.

The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile 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.

The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to go through it with as much grace and balance as possible, even if there is rebellion and adventure and exploration and resistance.

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.

But this is how history is done now. People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting.

No one does anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

In the sex-positive community, I found countless women who were sexually liberated and open, and required only one thing - that they be empowered and in control of the context, because that's how they felt safe enough to truly let go.

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

Many historians still tend to assume that the spread of an idea or an ideology is a function of its inherent content in relation to some vaguely specified context. We must now acknowledge, however, that some ideas go viral because of structural features of the network through which they spread. They are least likely to do so in a hierarchical, top-down network, where horizontal peer-to-peer links are prohibited.

We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.

when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar.

why should one expect what had worked on one occasion to work on another? Machiavelli stressed that if the political culture of a community had changed—if it had become corrupt, or virtuous—then strategies that had once failed would now work, and vice versa.