#context

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition. ↗

— Frank Black

#context #danger #death #fire #includes

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conditions #contexts #easy #employed #expression

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#approved #authorized #been #benefactors #comment

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#album #any #arrangements #arranger #band

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#ideas #unbiased-apathy #life

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... ↗

— John Geddes

#forcing-words #language #muse #writing-advice #art

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#any #appear #care #context #courage

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#assume #context #dangerous #feels #given

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible. ↗

— Tom Wopat

#arrangements #company #context #except #guy

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion