You are a co-author with me, the main protagonist. What you see is quite up to you.
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Quotes tagged ‘Interpretation’
Dr. Shaun Murphy: I conducted observations, successfully interpreted them, and logged them. Dr. Aaron Glassman: Romance in a spreadsheet. I love it.
— Karen Struck, Lloyd Gilyard, Jr., Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com
Dr. Zack Addy: We suck at interpretation. Dr. Jack Hodgins: We absolutely blow.
Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.
This quality of nuance and multiple interpretations is common to storytelling. It is one reason that adults and children can enjoy the same story together—each age takes from the story the elements that are appropriate.
You have very little control over how your work resonates with folks.
There is no one thing to say about anything.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.
Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all.
You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.
I don’t buy that we’re in a post-fact world. People talk about alternate facts, they talk about fake news and yet at the end of the day the facts, particularly the numbers, they are what they are. They tell us about the past. They give us an ability to, ourselves, judge the forecast that we all have…