Chet Atkins Quotes

Sometimes, when I do certain looks, I don't want the intention to be taken out of context or expressed in the wrong way.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

You know a guy. You know what's their best pitch. But catching it - that's different.

I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!