Top 200 Interpreting Quotes & Sayings

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

The proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it.

I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Being from the theatre, I am always interpreting someone else's thoughts and feelings.

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!

People have different ways of interpreting history.

The Bible may be more than an ordinary human book but it's not less, and the same principles therefore apply in interpreting it as in interpreting what my wife wants me to do. Only the stakes are even higher!

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They don't necessarily have to know exactly what each song is about. It's their way of interpreting of interpreting different feelings or emotions.

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly, how they're redefining the boundaries of our rights and our liberties, broadly, socially, and categorically without our involvement.

I love interpreting other people's music.

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

A good tracker is interpreting all the time, from every little sign, you know? Not just interpreting the age of the tracks but also: Is it wounded? Is it hungry? A good tracker is interpreting a lot.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

There's no right or wrong answer in an interpretation. It's all in the person who's interpreting, and how you feel about something.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.