Quotes About Interpretation

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

Just like Long Tom assumed the mine was his, said Zac. And the businessman assumed... began Christina, who then shrugged her shoulders, well, I don't know what he assumed.

of cattle, a bringer of dreams

A strange idea that one must say what one thinks in order to be understood.

archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us.

Muhammad's followers have not always maintained his reforms or abided by his teachings, just as followers of other great mystical leaders, including Jesus, have not.

Literal interpretation creates separation, whereas symbolic interpretation—seeing that all of them address the identical design of our spiritual natures—brings us together.

Honest autoethnographic exploration generates a lot of fears and self-doubt and emotional pain. Just when you think you can't stand the pain anymore that's when the real work begins. Then there is the vulnerability of revealing yourself, not being able to take back what you 've written or having any control over how readers interpret your story.

Our emotions don't necessarily tell us the facts about the situation, rather they tell us our interpretation of the facts.

We all see this case— what they're doing to Cormac—as black and white. But we're looking at white as white and Espinoza's looking at white as black. Does that make any sense?" "When maybe if we all saw it as gray we'd be able to come to some sort of compromise.

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning. Things have accumulated around your name.

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

Although there are alternative perceptions, there are no alternative facts.

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not. Shouldn't the storyteller believe it. The storyteller should tell it.

I've learned that there are two always two stories to one event: the public story and the truth.

People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.

There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.

People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.

They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it's the first time it's been told.