Quotes About Interpretation

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain.

This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots.

A word is also a picture of a word.

Reality doesn't happen until you analyze the dots

As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

How much myth do we build into our experience of time?

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools.

I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an inkling of what is really there to see. I don't know the details or the terminology but I do know that the optic nerve is not telling the full truth. We're seeing only intimations. The rest is our invention, our way of constructing what is actual, if there is any such thing, philosophically, that we can call actual.

Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

The meanings of today may not be the meanings of the future.

It is only at the reflective level that consciousness and the highest levels of feeling, emotions, and cognition reside. It is only here that the full impact of both thought and emotions are experienced. At the lower visceral and behavioral levels, there is only affect, but without interpretation or consciousness. Interpretation, understanding, and reasoning come from the reflective level.

Semantics is the study of meaning. Semantic constraints are those that rely upon the meaning of the situation to control the set of possible actions.

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them. As

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them.

Whenever you see hand-lettered signs pasted on doors, switches, or products, trying to explain how to work them, what to do and what not to do, you are also looking at poor design.

Let us consider, then, how the crisis of confidence in the professions has been interpreted by professionals who have given serious thought in their own fields to the adequacy of professional knowledge. On the whole, their assessment is that professional knowledge is mismatched to the changing character of the situations of practice—the complexity, uncertainty, instability, uniqueness, and value conflicts which are increasingly perceived as central to the world of professional practice.

There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the meaning of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.