How To Interpret Quotes

#1. Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.

Duncan McNaughton

#2. They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Peter Davison

#3. Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Graham Greene

#4. It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

Cristin Terrill

#5. But she understood how to interpret shadows.

Claudia Gray

#6. Olivia is a piece of art. You have to know how to interpret her, how to see the beauty under the harsh lines of her personality.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Danah Boyd

#8. I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

Oren Peli

#9. first no one knew exactly how to interpret,

Leonard Mlodinow

#10. Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Mike Tyson

#12. Divinity guides us all the time but most of us don't know how to interpret its messages.

Hina Hashmi

#13. How soon before there are ancient texts they feel they have to obey but have forgotten how to interpret?

Margaret Atwood

#14. This is the way we're taught early in our lives about how to interpret pain. When we experience pain, the way the people around us respond to it then teaches us to respond in a similar way.

John C. Parkin

#15. Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Arthur Golden

#16. I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

Malcolm X

#17. By working with one's own dream images and learning how to interpret them, a dreamer is unlocking the treasure box of insight, guidance, and transformation.

Teresa DeCicco

#18. The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

Timur Bekmambetov

#19. This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.

Ann Coulter

#20. He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Jorge Luis Borges

#21. All theology represents an intellectual rationalization of the possession of sacred values... Every theology... presupposes that the world must have a meaning, and the question is how to interpret this meaning so that it is intellectually conceivable.

Max Weber

#22. You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Tony Robbins

#23. There are great, obviously really, really wonderful and important journalists out there. And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad.

Angelina Jolie

#24. You are constantly changing & evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences.

Jenna Marbles

#25. Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

John William Strutt

#26. Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,
Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, ... All things wait for and divine him,
How shall I dare to malign him?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

Ben Shapiro

#28. I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

Natascha McElhone

#29. What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

Stephen Elliott

#30. People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

Leona Lewis

#31. Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

Robert Reich

#32. so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. That's what's great about America: that our freedom of religion allows me to interpret the Bible exactly how it fits my worldview already.

Stephen Colbert

#34. I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.

Robert Black

#35. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.

Amy Hatvany

#36. My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.

Sean Astin

#37. No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

Brendon Burchard

#38. I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.

Bai Ling

#39. If I were to tell you that I'm the one who does all the cooking, you'd interpret it as me trying to be some kind of role model. And if I were to say that my husband does all the cooking, you'd say: "Ah, so that's how it is with family ministers."

Kristina Schroder

#40. Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen - interpret, process, and assign meaning - to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.

Margie Warrell

#41. There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

Fred Durst

#42. Everything in this world is based on interpretation, how we as people interpret the people and events and feelings around us. Then our interpretation defines us. Who we are is usually based on how we react to circumstances.

Jessiqua Wittman

#43. What distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.

Bruce Meyer

#44. Once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret virtually any eventuality as a justification for thinking positively. You need never spend time considering how your actions might go wrong.

Oliver Burkeman

#45. Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the world, how we make sense of it.

Robert Galbraith

#46. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

#47. When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.

Alexandra Robbins

#48. The world was full of signs. One needed only to know how to see and interpret them.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#49. Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

#50. How can you interpret the behavior of others when you're a mystery to yourself?

Marie Rutkoski

#51. 1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Mindset because how you view, filter, interpret and automatically give meaning your experiences; is what you'll believe them to be.

Tony Dovale

#52. The kind of people claiming to be in
communication with God today ... they are enough to drive a real Christian crazy! And how about these evangelical types, performing miracles for money? Oh, there's big bucks in interpreting the gospel for idiots-or in having idiots interpret the gospel for you

John Irving

#53. The koans in the Blue Cliff Record do their best to introduce people to their true natures. One of them (number 27 out of 100) quotes a monk asking the master Yun Men, "How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" There are many ways to interpret the question, of course.

Mark Epstein

#54. What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

Sheena Iyengar

#55. My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Bill Scott

#56. History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Robert Harris

#57. Religion folks, is open to interpretation. And how YOU interpret the message you find in your religion says a lot about YOU.

Christina Engela

#58. We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Tony Robbins

#59. We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.

William Badke

#60. To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear
because how else do you find out about the world?

Maile Meloy

#61. to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom.

Joseph R. Lallo

#62. I believe you can never fail in life or love. You just produce results. It's up to you how you interpret those results.

Karen Salmansohn

#63. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Brian Tracy

#64. Socrates insisted that there's a strong connection between your philosophy (how you interpret the world, what you think is important in life) and your mental and physical health. Different beliefs lead to different emotional states...

Jules Evans

#65. I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

Chuck Palahniuk

#66. I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Davy Jones

#67. A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.

Max Kellerman

#68. I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

Anita Hill