Quotes About Deciphering

#1. Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. God exists only if adored
Time is nothing if one has not dreamed
("Painting")

Pierre Reverdy

#3. As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

Kate Williams

#4. Certain documents, such as the FISA court order allowing collection of telephone records and Obama's presidential directive to prepare offensive cyber-operations, were among the US government's most closely held secrets. Deciphering the archive and the NSA's language

Glenn Greenwald

#5. One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Ben Jonson

#6. The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Marcel Duchamp

#7. When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Andres Segovia

#8. After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. He is tired out from the effort of deciphering the world. Tired from the effort of smiling at the foe.

Hilary Mantel

#10. Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Nelson Mandela

#11. He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera ... This leads to the paradox that the more people shoot photographs, the less they are capable of deciphering them.

Vilem Flusser

#12. In the house of shadows where the legend rises the deciphering begins

W.G. Sebald

#13. Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

Aleatha Romig

#14. Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.

Sarah Dessen

#15. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.

Neil MacGregor

#17. Deciphering the rabbit warren that made up the minds of most women was never his strong suit. All he could do was ask for clarification. "Allegra, are you flirting with me?"
Her thumb stopped its stroking. "Um, yes. Am I not doing it right?

Chris Karlsen

#18. As much as she was capable at deciphering the motives of others, she was dreadful at doing the same for herself.

Eric Rickstad

#19. The school should teach a class on deciphering obscure images in bad photography. Amanda's photos could make up the textbooks.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#20. To me, style is consistency.

Adam Ant

#21. The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

Megan Shepherd

#22. No, the true face is wretchedly simple and empty. The absolute joy in life, in friendship, in love, is learning about a person, deciphering them, taking each and every mask off to find a new one, waiting to be explored and understood.

Tarun Shanker

#23. Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

David Carson

#24. Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Max Black

#25. Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. To talk of humans as 'transcendent' is not to ascribe to them spiritual properties. It is, rather, to recognize that as subjects we have the ability to transform our selves, our natures, our world - an ability denied to any other physical being.

Kenan Malik

#27. Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#28. Socrates became a trendsetter. Other philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle and Gus, quickly followed suit, dropping their last names too. And, for centuries after that there would be countless imitators including oltaire, Michelangelo, and, much later, Cher.

Demetri Martin

#29. Sometimes love and hate were so close in depth that deciphering what you were feeling was impossible.

Alaska Angelini

#30. Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.

Harry Triguboff

#31. Yes, but if you have difficulty deciphering my sesquipedalian language, then you must be even more intimidated by my magnitudious appearance.

Peggy Christian

#32. I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Alicia Keys

#33. Genet suggested that colonialism would crumble from the weight of its ignorance, its arrogance and greed, and that the oppressed would take over the positions of their former masters. They would be no better, no more courageous and no more merciful. I

Maya Angelou

#34. I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#35. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

Ashton Kutcher

#36. The process of deciphering meaning from dreams and ultimately, discovering a life path, does not usually happen instantly. This process evolves over time as dream interpretation is practiced.

Teresa DeCicco

#37. Carver was truculent: "What's a good part of it?

John Sandford

#38. Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Umberto Eco

#39. Far in the back of her mind she was thinking. But she could not dredge up these half-formed feelings, these obscure bits of ideas, into clear, definite thoughts ... Her mind ticked away, singing a song she could not decipher.

Helen Wells