Quotes About Interpretation

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take." (p. 318).

Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have probably been seeing time as a straight line that continues on forever. And that's the concept they based their actions on. And until now they haven't found anything inconvenient or contradictory about it. So as an experiential model, it's probably correct.

The book didn't come to any conclusion, and nobody wants to read a book that doesn't have one. For me, though, having no conclusion seemed perfectly fine.

Si no lo entiendes sin que te lo explique, quiere decir que no lo entenderás por más que te lo explique

If I can draw you the right way, maybe you'll be able to see yourself through my eyes, I said, If all goes well, of course. That's why we needs pictures. You're right--that's why we need pictures. Or literature, or music, or anything of that sort.

This layers, like some kind of transparent sponge kind of thing, stands there between Eri Asai and me, and the words that come out of my mouth have to pass through it, and when that happens, the sponge sucks almost all the nutrients right out of them.

Komatsu's view is that there are always two sides to everything, Tengo said. A good side and a not-so-bad side.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

En definitiva -así lo creo-, lo único que puedo verter en este receptáculo imperfecto que es un texto son recuerdos imperfectos, pensamientos imperfectos. (Tokio Blues. Norwegian wood - Traducción del japonés por Lourdes Porta)

A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos.

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.

It made me wonder how other people saw me. Not that I had any way of knowing, of course.

Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.

Subject and object are not as distinct as most people think. If the boundary separating the two isn't clear-cut to begin with, it is not such a difficult task to intentionally shift back and forth from one to the other.

They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus's unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard.

So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films reality.

Lo que para una persona puede ser una distancia prudencial, para otra puede ser un abismo.

Chevron, for example, has a decision-analysis group whose members facilitate decision-framing workshops; coordinate data gathering for analysis; build and refine economic and analytical models; help project managers and decision makers interpret analyses; point out when additional information and analysis would improve a decision; conduct an assessment of decision quality; and coach decision makers.

The art of management is the art of making meaningful generalizations out of inadequate facts.