Quotes About Interpretation

The difference between delirium and insight is only a matter of perspective. —DR. WELLINGTON YUEH, private medical journals

The law is not a ball of twine, to be picked at and unraveled until there is nothing left of it.

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

Art has no responsibility except to be art.

But you have gift! Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.

Theory, recall, is the term for bad philosophy in literature departments.

But there's this thing in her voice, like what my mom called "doublespeak." Saying one thing and meaning another. Aunt Nora told me it was leftover from English rule. She said, "That's the only good thing to ever come of colonialism, Kevin. The Irish can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .

no crees lo que ves, sino que ves lo que ya crees.

Most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.

The pseudoheterosexual interpretation of animal behavior offers striking parallels to stereotypical views about human homosexuality. Scientific puzzlement over assigning animals male or female roles echoes the refrain often heard by gay and lesbian people, who are frequently asked, Which one plays the man (or woman)? The assumption is that homosexual relationships must be modeled after heterosexual ones - a view that is as narrow a conception of human relationships as it is of animal sexuality.

Every story, the moment it's written down, will be reread," she said. "And every rereading will be a reinterpretation. In that sense, there is not an original story and there is not an original message.

the character of our life is based upon how we perceive it.

Non aveva mai capito perché la gente che leggeva Edgar Wallace per gusto e che riteneva che i gatti neri portassero sfortuna dovesse sentirsi offesa dalla dottrina della transustanziazione.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.

What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.

The reader is always right

around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some

It was the first time I'd realised that the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' was an Afrikaner.

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital.

Human nature likes order; people find it hard to accept the notion of randomness. No matter what the laws of chance might tell us, we search for patterns among random events wherever they might occur—not only in the stock market but even in interpreting sporting phenomena.

We don't hear what someone said; we imagine what they meant.

El mundo es tu percepción de él. Lo interior y lo exterior siempre se corresponden: el uno refleja al otro. El mundo es el reflejo de tu mente. Si experimentas caos y confusión en tu interior, tu mundo exterior tiene que reflejarlo. Tienes que ver lo que crees, porque eres el pensador confundido que mira hacia fuera y se ve a sí mismo. Eres el intérprete de todo, y si eres caótico, lo que oyes y lo que ves tiene que ser un caos.