Quotes About Interpretation

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ? Robert McCloskey

The minimalist storyteller deliberately gives this last critical bit of work to the audience.

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.

Ninety percent of all verbal expression has no filmic equivalent. "He's been sitting there for a long time" can't be photographed.

Porque los artistas no deben tener sólo ideas que expresar, sino ideas que demostrar. Expresar una idea, en el sentido de presentarla, nunca es suficiente. El público no debe únicamente entender; debe creer.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

We see what we want to believe.

Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!

God is the opposite of Rodin.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.

There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.

His reply had that clarity, objectivity and reasonableness which is possible only to advisers who have completely missed the point.

It is problematic because, taken together, the whole--composed of lies and truth--forms a truth of its own.

Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for....

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

Happiness is nothing more than a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret

one of them said that the Chinese character for 'crisis' is composed of two sub-characters: one that spells 'danger' and another that spells 'opportunity.

no experience, whether it is public speaking or asking your boss for a raise or swimming in a sun-soaked lake or walking along the beach on a moonlit night, is inherently painful or pleasant. It is your thinking that makes it so.

we see the world through a filter that's made up of all our personal programming. And we run the program so much we get brainwashed into believing that the way we are seeing the world is real, right?

We see the world, not as it is but as we are.