Context Quotes - page 15

We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me. (Gilles Marini)
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. We have demonstrated, even in our diversity, the progress of Nigeria remains paramount for all. View quote
Goodluck Jonathan
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity. View quote
Graham Nelson
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same. View quote
Geoffrey Ward
There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling. View quote
Henry Selick
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective. View quote
Hedi Slimane
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. View quote
James Geary
I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful. View quote
James Iha
I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers. View quote
Jay Sekulow
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
Language usage always has a political context. (Jackson Katz)
Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. View quote
Jacob T. Schwartz
I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives. View quote
Julie Salamon
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. View quote
K'naan
Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines. View quote
Kristin Cavallari
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that. View quote
Lloyd Blankfein
The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day. View quote
Lou Boudreau
When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model. View quote
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading. View quote
Marco Arment
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. View quote
Marianne Wiggins
I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all. (Francis Alys)
Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other. View quote
Fred Davis
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context. View quote
John King
Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented to us. View quote
Joseph Edward Kurtz
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework. View quote
Lawrence Kutner