Context Importance Quotes

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

Text without context is pretext.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.