The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.
What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!
To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.
The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny
All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.
I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
The ideas by which people. . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
That's such a big part of film scoring that people don't realize. There's a portion of film scoring that's writing the music, but a lot of it is how do you get along with the guy you're working with, how do you interpret what he wants? It's so subjective, you know? Your version of sad is probably different than my version of sad. It's my job to figure out what your vision of sad looks like.
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.