Quotes About Interpretation

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion, and that you have no idea what they're acting out or where they're coming from, so just because you think something is totally not okay, in their illusion, it could be fine and your way could be totally not okay.

There's probably a ton of yellow, but you didn't see it because you were looking for red.

Our entire experience on this planet is determined by how we choose to perceive our reality.

What we seem to perceive influences what we feel, and what we feel influences what we say we perceive

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. Furthermore, idiosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. [...] [W]e should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

Because people's experiences differ, what they hear in the music will be different, and how they relate it to broader life experience will also be different. [...] [I]diosyncrasy in musical interpretation is something to be celebrated rather than condemned. Furthermore, we should think of the score not as the work itself but rather as a useful tool to help us arrive at our individual interpretation of a piece.

L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

When we identify with music that we are perceiving - or perhaps better, with the person whom we imagine owns the emotions or emotional gestures we hear in the music - we share in and adopt these emotions as our own [...]. And so we end up feeling as, in imagination, the music does.

The prophecy seemed to indicate that we should stay together in order to succeed." "The prophecy has many meanings," Kiernan said, "and none of them are clear." "Then why have a prophecy at all?" Brant demanded, a hint of his old irritation breaking into his voice. "Has it really changed anything?" Kiernan asked. "It has changed everything!" "Interesting." Kiernan looked thoughtful."You really think so?

Reality is subjective, don't you know that by now? It's how we experience the world that makes it real to us.

Darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so.

Tempting as it may be to interpret the behavior of other animals in terms of human mental processes, it's perhaps even more tempting to reject the possibility of kinship. It's what primatologist Frans de Waal calls "anthropodenial," blindness to humankind characteristics of other species,"Those who are in anthropodenial," says de Waal, "try to build a brick wall to separate humans from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Her brain's response was, Oh, goody! What came out of her mouth was, "Gunh?

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

We used to say he must've met you in the fiction section.

I silently chuckled at Cindy's characterization

History is fiction.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Art is the most effective form of communication.

I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but I thought I caught the word prepubescent .