Quotes About Interpretation

Can living artwork die? Can it live before it dies?

The thing is," Deeba said, eyeing Mr. Speaker, "you could only make words do what you want if it was just you deciding what they mean. But it isn't. It's everyone else, too. Which means you might want to give them orders, but you aren't in control. No one is.

staggering out of Language, into language

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

?ôi khi ch? c?n nhìn vào l?ng m?t ng??i ta ?ã có th? ?oán bi?t ngay ???c tâm tr?ng h? ra sao, có nh?ng c?m xúc gì ?ang di?n ra trong lòng h?

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

If you don't like my story,write your own

Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It's more important for people to remember the relationship than the number.

When a CEO discusses "unlocking shareholder value," there is a tune playing in her head that the employees can't hear.

self-evaluation involves interpretation, and that's where the Elephant intrudes.

When it comes to statistics, our best advice is to use them as input, not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue. Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the numbers to support yourself—that's asking for temptation and trouble. But if we use statistics to help us make up our minds, we'll be in a great position to share the pivotal numbers with others

The most important lesson to learn about devil's advocacy isn't the need for a formal contrarian position; it's the need to interpret criticism as a noble function.

Make the baskets as small as you can while retaining the wholeness of whole numbers. If 2/3rds or .67 or 67% of people didn't like the new flavor, then make them feel like people in a room. "2 out of 3 people thought cheesy marshmallow was "disgusting." Going up to 67 out of 100 would dilute understanding.

Statistics aren't inherently helpful; it's the scale and context that make them so.

Fundamental Attribution Error." The error lies in our inclination to attribute people's behavior to the way they are rather than to the situation they are in.

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72)

Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.