#interpret

It is not enough just to read the Bible; it is even just as important to understand it. As to living it- that is accomplished in and through us by the Holy Spirit." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#bible-interpretation #bible-study #holy-spirit #icarnationally #r-alan-woods

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. ↗

— Stephen Shore

#photography #photography

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops. ↗

— Nataly Kelly

#language #linguistics #translation #iraq

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted. ↗

— Larry David

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#activities #interpretation #knowledge #mind #road

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. ↗

— Earl Browder

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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. ↗

— Aaliyah

#dance #i #interpreter #laugh #life

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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