184 Quotes About Context
- Author Ryan Lilly
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Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.
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- Author Bertolt Brecht
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We crawl by inches. What we find today we will wipe from the blackboard tomorrow and reject it—unless it shows up again the day after tomorrow. And if we find anything which would suit us, that thing we will eye with particular distrust.
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- Author Craig E. Johnson
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Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ...
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- Author Neil Postman
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Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment.
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- Author Norton Juster
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Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo."Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
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- Author Adrienne Rich
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Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.
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- Author Reinhold Niebuhr
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What we think of man and God, of sin and salvation, is partly prompted by the comparative comforts or discomforts in which we live. It is a very sobering reflection on the lack of transcendence of the human spirit over the flux of historical change.
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- Author Samuel R. Delany
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Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ("Lost the global story." )
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