Contextual Quotes

#1. Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.

Pearl Zhu

#2. DSM definitions do not include personal and contextual factors such as whether the depressive symptoms are an understandable response to loss, a terrible life situation, psychological conflict or personality factors.

Allen Frances

#3. We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

David Brenner

#4. The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Robert Scoble

#5. The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Annie Dillard

#6. I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

Cornel West

#7. Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Jean Houston

#8. The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today's truths becomes tomorrow's disproven hypotheses of forgotten objet d'arts.

Daniel J. Levitin

#9. When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.
Hannibal Lecter

Thomas Harris

#10. In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.

John Battelle

#11. The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#12. The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat,

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

Brian Chippendale

#14. Mediocrity is contextual.

David Foster Wallace

#15. Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

Richard E. Nisbett

#16. In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

Giles Foden

#17. In summary, Schmucker argued that theology was contextual in nature, and that theological systems and expressions - indeed the church itself - had to be changed to accommodate their cultural and philosophical setting.

Albert B. Collver

#18. Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Fritjof Capra

#19. For me, feminism is always contextual.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Helen Fisher

#21. Studies show that even regular gym-going can't fully undo the harm of sitting. So my plan is to tear down the wall between exercise and life. I've started doing what I call guerrilla exercise - or what my friend calls contextual exercise. I squeeze physical activity into every nook in my day.

A. J. Jacobs

#22. The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual.

Pearl Zhu

#23. When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will stand out in an increasingly information-saturated world.

Shawn Amos

#24. I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

Max Blumenthal

#25. Self-identity is about content not the container that carry
the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#26. when asking someone to make a judgment call in a volatile environment, consider withholding historical information so that he or she can focus on contextual information. More data isn't always better.

Anonymous

#27. Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction.

Jeff Atwood

#28. Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

Bernard Tschumi

#29. I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Billy Corgan

#30. [Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

Helen Fisher

#31. No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable.

Julie Tetel Andresen

#32. An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

Robert Heinecken