Context Is Key Quotes

“Witness.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Separate text from context and all that remains is a con.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going.”
― David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra

“Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“I should have been put down at birth.”
― Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!”
― Alexander Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires

“I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set

“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it.
This is one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me, ever.
Context is all.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Words are never good or bad on their own, context makes them so.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“[..] too often we teach children concepts without context; we need to show them why learning is important”
― Sudhakar Ram, Connected Age: Being the Best You Can in the New World

“Context constitutes 90 % of a message, words only 10 %.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Answer must be molded compatible with context, contextless answer creates only more problems.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets