Quotes About Interpretation

She wasn't sure what he meant by 'surquedry', other than probably meaning he thought she was a lippy bitch

The New Testament takes no demonstrable position on homosexuality. To suggest that Paul's references to excesses of sexual indulgence involving homosexual behavior are indicative of a general position in opposition to same-sex eroticism is as unfounded as arguing that his condemnation of drunkenness implies opposition to the drinking of wine.

To ascribe feeling is usually to make a prediction about subsequent behaviour.

We must conclude therefore that the processes of interpreting and appraising sensory input must unquestionably be assigned a causal role in producing whatever behaviour emerges. Like the other causal factors already discussed they are necessary but not often sufficient.

Now there is nothing unscientific in utilising, for the interpretation of data, any model that seems promising; and there is therefore nothing unscientific either in Freud's introduction of his model or in his own or others' employment of it. Nevertheless, the question arises whether there may by now be an alternative better suited for the purpose in hand.

we may just have to come around to the notion that there's my universe and there's your universe—but there's no such thing as the universe.

This is the tome that guides haruspication—I mean, psychiatry.)

action, it would result in rigidity and certainty of interpretation, and would make it much easier for tax practitioners like me to manipulate the law to their clients' advantage. The

conclusions:

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

The greatest pleasure in life is to be understood, is it not? But who in the world does an artist like you or me find to understand

Sometimes you linger days upon a word, a single, uncontaminated drop of sound; for days it trembles, liquid to the mind, then falls: mere denotation dimming the undertow of language.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them…. It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit.

Literature does not grow wild in the woods. Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

The one quality that seemingly guaranteed the success of these and so many other numbers is Pan's ability to remain open to a variety of sources and styles. Though it is difficult for any artist to avoid being redundant, Pan, nevertheless, strove to make each dance a complete and unique experience.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third. What can they have to do with one another?

Her playing which had been superb became merely correct. It was necessary to suggest a certain sloppiness, the playing of something that hadn't been written. Computer-made music-synthesized Blue Moon- presented same problem. Random elements introduced.

I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.