Interpretation Quotes

• We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Truth
  • Interpretation
  • Literal

• The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • World
  • Real
  • Problem

• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  

  Epictetus
  • People
  • Power
  • Interpretation

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

  

  Joshua Bell
  • Performing
  • Interpretation
  • Get Out

• Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.

  

  Everett C. Olson
  • Information
  • Evolution
  • Greatest

• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Works
  • Landscape
  • Ideals

• This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

  

  Curtis White
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Process

• Our emotions don't necessarily tell us the facts about the situation, rather they tell us our interpretation of the facts.

  

  Carolyn Mahaney
  • Facts
  • Emotions
  • Tell

• I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Interpretation

• I don't see any point. I'm not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn's interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison's personalities act as springboards for Glenn's imagination. I don't think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.

  

  Jake Weber
  • Imagination
  • Playing
  • Glenn

• The news is so instantly available to us without delay, interpretation, or a filter. What is hot right now is streamed live without context or perspective.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Perspective
  • News
  • Interpretation

• The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.

  

  Eduard Bernstein
  • History
  • Events
  • Forces

• Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.

  

  George Pendle
  • Style
  • Interpretation
  • Foot

• An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Notes
  • Interpretation

• I believe that I've grown in my acting career because I've become more confident. I've become less worried about what people think. When I go into a meeting - 'audition', I have a different sense of self when I walk into the room. I'm here to give you my interpretation of your lines. This is my stage; I'm not waiting to be hired by you to be on your stage. We all might die tomorrow, so I'm going to have to live in my gift, today, and give you the best performance in this room, right now, in case this is the last time you get to see me!

  

  Brely Evans
  • Career
  • Self
  • I Believe

• What strikes the inside of our eyes is completely open to interpretation. We don’t know what strikes the inside of our eyes because our brain gets in the way. What strikes the inside of the eyes is upside down for start. So if the brain can do that, it can do anything. We learn a lot of things about seeing. We learn how to see.

  

  Adam Fuss
  • Eyes
  • See
  • Interpretation

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

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Result

• There is something cosmic in his interpretation of the movement of earth and sky and weather forms in his paintings...

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Earth
  • Interpretation
  • Paintings

• This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Ideas
  • Information
  • Modern

• What comes from the heart always reaches the heart. When I come in there, I'm giving my heart because I studied to show myself approved, I know my lines, I understand the character. This is my interpretation! So, I encourage everybody to really get comfortable with yourself. Stay true to your authentic self, and stop being worried about people. We are all the same, at the end of the day. No one can make or break your career. You can make or break your career. There's no competition. Just focus on what you came do.

  

  Brely Evans
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Focus

• I had always regarded language as more a question of utility than identity. Therefore, I promptly noted that all the (EU) meetings should be conducted in English and French. My older colleagues laughed. Later I understood why. On the second day of the Finnish presidency (of the EU) a German delegation refused to participate in an informal ministerial meeting because no German interpretation had been arranged.

  

  Alexander Stubb
  • Language
  • Meetings
  • Interpretation

• Posttraumatic stress is the result of a fundamental reorganization of the central nervous system based on having experienced an actual threat of annihilation, (or seeing someone else being annihilated), which reorganizes self experience (as helpless) and the interpretation of reality (the entire world is a dangerous place).

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Stress
  • Nervous System
  • Reorganizing

• You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it.

  

  Jovan Adepo
  • Parents
  • Trust
  • Interpretation

• There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

  

  David Robert Mitchell
  • Character
  • Differences
  • Events

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