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Quotes About Interpretation

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".
~ John Edensor Littlewood
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
~ Andy Hargreaves
I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.
~ Sturgill Simpson
Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.
~ Helen Barrett Montgomery
Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
~ Duane Michals
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
~ Frank Herbert
The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.
~ Jodi Picoult
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
~ A.E. Samaan
There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.
~ A.E. Samaan
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
~ Alan Cohen
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.
~ Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life
I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
~ Cara Delevingne
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
~ Joan Miro
Words will be just words till you bring them to life
~ Niall Horan
I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
~ Alexander McQueen
Make life an art rather than art from life.
~ David Gilmour
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
~ Rem Koolhaas
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.
~ Epictetus
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
~ Aldo Rossi
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
~ John Tukey
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
So many needing so much to communicate what amounted to so little.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Borne wasn't even a killer as I was a killer, but someone who killed the innocent and tried to call them guilty.
~ Jeff Vandermeer