Quotes About Interpretation

Only a colored look can see a black and white photo.

There is a writer in every sentence without the author.

The artist's signature shows the whole story on a white canvas."

There are so many colors in black and white.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don't actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we're killing each other over these imaginings.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

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We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention.

your subjective experience consists largely of the story that your System 2 tells itself about what is going on.

She is a hedgehog. She has a theory that explains everything, and it gives her the illusion that she understands the world.

They didn't want more information that might spoil their story. WYSIATI.

Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world.

Statistical results with a causal interpretation have a stronger effect on our thinking than non-causal information. But even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.

Indeed, we pay people quite well to provide interesting explanations of regression effects. A business commentator who correctly announces that "the business did better this year because it had done poorly last year" is likely to have a short tenure on the air.

Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

Unless you are a professional, however, you may not react very differently to a sample of 150 and to a sample of 3,000. That is the meaning of the statement that "people are not adequately sensitive to sample size.

We hold a single interpretation of the world around us at any one time, and we normally invest little effort in generating plausible alternatives to it. One interpretation is enough, and we experience it as true. We do not go through life imagining alternative ways of seeing what we see.

recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation.

Most of us, most of the time, live with the unquestioned belief that the world looks as it does because that's the way it is.

The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.