Quotes About Interpretation

Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut.

Heil Hitler,' zei hij, wat, voor zover hij wist, een andere manier was om te zeggen 'Tot ziens en een prettige dag verder'.

see, hear, etc ………… (senses) I interpret …………… (mind, thinking) I feel …………… (emotions) I want …………… (desires)

I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.  This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.

So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.

I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

Quando entendemos o ponto de vista do próximo — entendemos o que ele está tentando fazer nove entre dez vezes ele está tentando fazer o que é certo.

People can be in the same place sharing the same experience at the same time, but they can walk away from it having seen very different things.

As you interact with people, you certainly want to pay attention to the factual content of the conversation. But don't ignore the emotional content. Sometimes you can learn more about what's really going on by reading between the lines.

You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

Have you ever had to communicate someone else's vision? It's very difficult to do, isn't it?

I was brought up in southern Massachusetts, where it was thought that mythology was a subject that we should all grasp. It was very much a part of my education. The easiest way to parse the world is through mythology.

The neurologist and psychologist Maurice Nicoll told how he had once asked his headmaster about a passage in the Bible, and after he had listened to the answer for some time, he realized that the man had no idea what he was talking about. What I admire about Nicoll is that he made this discovery when he was only ten. It took me another forty-five years before the penny dropped: very, very few people have any idea what they are talking about.

It's funny how you can tell someone likes someone else, but you can't tell when someone likes you.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

Don't be quick to judge, sometimes it pays to read between the lines. That's where the hurt, pain, broken hearts, loneliness and a cries for help are.

When you are happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you are sad you understand the lyrics..

If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.

When a girl changes her clothes in front of you, she's either really interested in you or you are at level 99 of the friend zone...

Guys use the word friendship to start a relationship. Girls use the word friendship to end it...

If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.