Personal Context Quotes

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.

In order to talk about what I really want to talk about, people have to know that my sexuality is a part of that.

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.