Context Is Key Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul. — Dean Koontz

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that. — Sue Grafton

Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context. — Charles Hazlewood

Furthermore, we had witnessed over and over again that making opportunities for creative expression within a context of care and connection is a seemingly magical key for unlocking that hope and resilience. And it doesn't require the work of experts. We can all do this. — Peggy Taylor

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. — Kenneth Noland

No matter what your job is, the key is your context, your beliefs about your responsibility to customers and the relationships you intend to enjoy or endure with them. — Susan Scott

When you focus, you can achieve anything. If you have no focus, you will achieve nothing. — David Clark

Brent and I are ... friends.
And fuck me, the benefits are fantastic — Emma Chase

My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show ... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper! — Max Von Essen

You know, Junie, you're fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich ...
The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that sandwich. If she knew that I'd searched and searched the house until I finally found the little key to the fireproof box buried in the bottom of her underwear drawer, if she knew that I'd unlocked the box and taken my passport out, that I had it with me right that very second in a Ziploc bag in the bottom of my backpack, if she knew why I had it there, if she knew even a bit of all that, she might have made me that PBJ. She wouldn't have said, "You're fourteen now," like she thought I was some kind of responsible adult. No. If she knew about my plan, she would have said, "you're only fourteen." She would have told me that I was crazy to think about going to England with I was only fourteen. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going. — David Ohle

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility. — Darrin Patrick

Because no one frustrates me quite as much as you do." Totally true. "Soon, the thought of your face will do it, but now, it seems I need your annoying presence as well. — Kasie West

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That's how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context. — David Byrne

What I understood so far about this life was there were the bullies and the bullied, the hunters and the hunted, the strong and the stronger and the weak — Karen Thompson Walker

Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to let them know they are loved, even if some of their behavior is not. Work towards co-creative solutions. — Arielle Ford

I should have been put down at birth. — Richard Dawkins

Peter Koestenbaum also elaborated on the importance of others, particularly romantic lovers, in the existential context. Love is the choice to create and reflect each other mutually, verifying and illuminating each other's uniqueness because this is how we learn that we exist and who we are. A key theme of authentic love is resistance between, but welcoming of, two independent consciousness acting like positive and negative magnets within a single magnetic field. — Skye Cleary

Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability. — Ellen J. Langer

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

If today were your final day of this life, would those things causing you stress still do so? — Mark Hart

I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage ... it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to. — Roy Orbison

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! — Alexandre Dumas

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life. — Jeffrey Steingarten

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time. — Magic Johnson

The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always dependent on God's grace, His undeserved favor to those who deserve His wrath. Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing. — Jerry Bridges