Of Context Quotes

• I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Venture, Neglect

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.5, SIU Press

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used. If it is just taken out of a context and presented as a sort of object, which is what - you know, which is a contemporary art idea, you know. It is like an old surrealist idea or an old cubist idea to take something out of context and put it in a completely different context. And it sort of gives it a different meaning and creates another world, another kind of world in which we enter.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Taken, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Essence, Crafts

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• Priority is a function of context.

  Stephen Covey

  Priorities, Time Management, Function

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.653, Mango Media Inc.

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• Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor, because it's up to the journalist not only to understand what I'm trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process. And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context. Some people may not appreciate your work and some may be incredibly moved by it. So that isn't the concern. You have to do what you can do, and share what you feel is appropriate to share in the moment. And then, it's out of your control.

  Adrien Brody

  People, Appreciate, Understanding

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

  Rowan Williams

  Numbers, Forums, Discourse

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

  Ani DiFranco

  Honesty, Taken, Strange

  Song: Fire Door

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• I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

  Daphne Guinness

  Taken, Upset, Use

  Interview With Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

  Cat Stevens

  Sacred Scripture, Elements, Extremist

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

  John Wyndham

  Said, Quotations

  John Wyndham (2008). “The Midwich Cuckoos”, p.85, Penguin UK

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Taken, Reading

  Source: ctheory.net

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• There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

  Frederick Busch

  Kids, Surfing, Consideration

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• People are going to write and say things you don't like. They're going to take things out of context. What are you going to do? You can't let it destroy your life. That's their problem. They're going to go on and not be respected for what they do. Just worry about what you do. You have to make up your mind. You also have to be prepared for fallout. You have to accept the industry you're in.

  Shania Twain

  Writing, People, Worry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

  Paul Shepard

  Dream, World, Realizing

  Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.6, Island Press

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  If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, New York, Looks

  "What lies beneath". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

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• Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

  Leslie Jamison

  Mean, Knowing, Imagination

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.8, Granta Books

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• Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

  Max Scherzer

  Baseball, Taken, Player

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Talking, Games

  "Anna Kendrick Talks PITCH PERFECT, Singing Live on Set, Interacting More on Twitter, Her Love of Reddit, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• "What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context."

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Lunch, Guy

  "Fangirl". Book by Rainbow Rowell, September 10, 2013.

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• I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Answers, Want

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Taken, Dark, Media

  "Merging Physical and Digital in Fashion" by Nicola Formichetti, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.

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• The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.

  Neil Postman

  Photography, Taken, Way

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.73, Penguin

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• Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Time, Successful

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