Quotes About Interpretation

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

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

How you define an event produces emotionand determines how you feel going forward

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.

Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

You don't see the world as it is, you see it, as you are.

Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.