Quotes About Interpretation

It is estimated that humans are capable of more than ten thousand different facial expressions (Ekman, 2003, 14–15).

Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language.

Commandment 2: Observing in context is key to understanding nonverbal behavior.

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book can really give your brain a workout, because you spend so much time wondering what incredibly dumb thing the author will say next.

She shook her head, gazing at me with a mixture of exasperation and annoyance. "I understand now why you never have a girlfriend, Perry.""What? I've had a girlfriend! What's that got to do with anything?""You do not know how to listen to a woman

Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Psychiatric diagnosis is at best a common language, and current categories should not be treated as "real.

the context of Ezekiel is the best context by which to interpret the area to which Isaiah referred.

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.

That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the eyes that tell us what we're really seeing, what's underneath. So all I painted in the picture were greens. Patterns, random slashes, shapes over shapes, shadows, emotions, it's all there.

Tell him why I didn't stop, Marcus." The art dealer sighed. "You never said anything about butterflies, you moron.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

All play means something.

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.

A népnyelv e kifinomult szellem számára mindent túl közvetlenné, túl személyessé, túl reálissá tett volna. Szüksége volt arra a homályos, távolságtartó, könny? fátyolra, amelyet a latin nyelv vont a dolgok köré.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne ?uje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

Nismo li možda tijekom vremena tuma?ili krš?anstvo suviše isklju?ivo kao religiju osjetljivu za grijeh te u skladu s tim premalo osjetljivu za trpljenje?

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

What Tarquinius Superbus said in the garden by means of the poppies, the son understood but the messenger did not.

It's that their model of you is so accurate that it's making predictions about you that you think are magic.