Context Quotes

• The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Learning
  • Context
  • Transferring

• I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.

  

  Ethan Peck
  • Family
  • Quality
  • Born

• We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?'

  

  Harper Reed
  • Idea
  • Context
  • Intent

• When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Scripture
  • Context

• In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Simplicity
  • Context
  • Frills

• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Life
  • Roots
  • Infinite

• We are now coming to realize that human behavior is determined as much by social context as by rational thinking.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Thinking
  • Behavior
  • Context

• One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, "Aren't you worried? They've been posted on Facebook and such." And he said, "Just the opposite. This is a folk form; they survive and thrive as people share them."

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Poems
  • Facebook
  • Novelist

• I'd love to do something in a more humanitarian context. I think it will come to me.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Something
  • Context
  • Humanitarian

• The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.

  

  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  • Problem
  • Context
  • Hierarchy

• Some of the choices in life will choose you. How you face those choices, these turns in the road, with what kind of attitude, more than the choices themselves, is what will define the context of your life.

  

  Dana Reeve
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Attitude

• I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Past
  • Interviews
  • Context

• The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

  

  Michael Graves
  • Design
  • Program
  • Middle

• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

  

  Eliel Saarinen
  • Design
  • Context
  • Considering

• I think some people watch Raging Bull, or they watch The Piano Teacher, and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Raging Bull
  • The Piano Teacher

• Priority is a function of context.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Function
  • Priorities
  • Context

• Community is essential when it comes to successfully living out the Christian walk in a day-to-day context. So the math is simple: More community = More disciples.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Community
  • Christian
  • Disciples

• I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • Grew Up
  • Context
  • Muslim

• We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Religion
  • Sense
  • Modern

• I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

  

  Emily Raboteau
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Civil Rights

• But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

  

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Film
  • Special
  • Narrative

• I'm only looking at it in the context of what it does for my company.

  

  George Bodenheimer
  • Company
  • Looking
  • Context

• The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

  

  Edwin Schlossberg
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skill

• There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

  

  Paul Horgan
  • Want
  • Happen
  • Context

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