Interpretation Quotes

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that Ive ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Less information often leads to more interpretation.

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.