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Interpretation Quotes

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

'What is a balanced interpretation of the text? Neither completely literal nor overly biased?'
Authors on Interpretation Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Deepak Chopra Tony Robbins Frank Moore Cross Michel de Montaigne Henry Reed Carl Jung Ronald Fisher Lou Andreas-Salomé Rebecca L. Walkowitz Janelle Monae Andre Kertesz Jacqueline Woodson Eric Bana Philip-Lorca diCorcia Robert Frost Mary Leakey Vasily Smyslov Henry Moore Colin Farrell Larry Wall Pablo Casals Riccardo Muti Jonathan Brandis William James Noam Chomsky Ian Curtis Rose Leslie Ludwig Wittgenstein Jenkin Lloyd Jones Andrej Pejic Harry Stack Sullivan Erykah Badu
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It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.
Alfred Adler

It is plain that we are not swayed by "information" but rather our understanding of the information.
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All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
Ian Curtis

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Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.
Fred Astaire

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

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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.
Michael Kenna

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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
Saint Augustine

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

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Art is life's dream interpretation.
Otto Rank

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

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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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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.
Sammy Gravano

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

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

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

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

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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.
Roland Barthes

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

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I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.
Andre Kertesz

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

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

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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.
Carl Gustav Hempel

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

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The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.
Josiah Royce

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

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

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

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

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

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I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey

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

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Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations
Rad Hourani

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

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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.
Uta Hagen

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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.
Ludwig von Mises

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

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I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston

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The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
Michel de Montaigne

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For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
Sheldon B. Kopp

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
Paracelsus

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The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.
Deepak Chopra