Quotes About Interpretation

No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach, in their own way.

The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they're conveying is honest.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.

The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.