Quotes About Interpretation

In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.

In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see.  Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.

Concepts that had eluded him because they could not be shaped with images and feelings alone, but needed the rich subtlety of abstract language to shape and anchor them with a webbery of symbols.

When we think of the word culture, obvious representations such as how to dress, eat, speak, and act like those around us come to mind. But learning culture is more than learning conformity to external patterns of behavior. Culture is also a system of shared concepts, beliefs, and values. It is the framework from which we interpret and make sense of life and the world around us.

The perception of unfairness or injustice is the ultimate cause of most, if not all, anger... In fact, fairness is simply a perceptual interpretation... Your assumption that they are "being unfair" implies that your way of looking at things is universally accepted.

This isn't a new idea. Nearly two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher, Epictctus, stated that people are disturbed "not by things, but by the views we take of them." In the Book of Proverbs (23: 7) in the Old Testament you can find this passage: "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." And even Shakespeare expressed a similar idea when he said: "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" (Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2).

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Mind Reading. You jump to conclusions about how others are thinking and feeling without any clear evidence.

Magnification and Minimization. You exaggerate the negativity in a situation and minimize the positives. I call this the "binocular trick" since magnifying is like looking through a pair of binoculars (which makes everything much bigger), and minimizing is like looking through the opposite end (which makes everything much smaller).

That illustrates my rule of thumb for reading history: View with suspicion any anecdote that makes a good enough story to have survived on its literary merits.

It's only a story, isn't it?... Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.

If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.

In your view, evil's no more than a disagreement about the way things are supposed to be.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he expresses himself have been thrown into big time flux.

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an end can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.

The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.

Show me somebody who really knows what irony means and I'll show you a bullshit artist.

Don't cry, Booboo. Remember the flag only halfway up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen - one way to lower the flag to half mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario?