Quotes About Interpretation

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.

Edmond did not lose a word, but comprehended very little of what was said.

it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.

But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now

The movement of the arm, the sound of the voice, and the agility of the body were wanting, but the speaking eye sufficed for all.

dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the noise of water falling into water.

since like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, he was occupied with seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else's idea