Best 174 quotes in «interpretation quotes» category

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

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.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

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

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

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.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

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

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer can do that will excite my pen into making magic for someone else to enjoy..Only the music inspires me.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

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

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

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

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

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

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. So that is always there.

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

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

There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

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

There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

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.