Interpretation Quotations

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

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

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.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

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.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

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

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

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.

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

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

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.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

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

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

Dancing is a vertical interpretation of a horizontal intention.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

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

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

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

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

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!

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

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

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

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

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

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.

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

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

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.

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

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

Yet is was very difficult to seperate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

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

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

The information was correct, but the interpretation was not

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

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

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

An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is bound to amaze the reader and the scholar. Who was Shakespeare?

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

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.

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

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

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

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

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.

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.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

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

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

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

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

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

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

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

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

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

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

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

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.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.