Decipher Quotes - page 2

I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician. (Steve Vai)
Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. View quote
Carl Lewis
But in that case politics as well as religion miss their common parlance meanings, and become esoteric terms which scoundrels and secularists alone can decipher. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
How much lies in laughter the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that-in many realms, not just sex-we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. View quote
Robert Wright
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on? View quote
Marc Jacobs
Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher:. View quote
Northrop Frye
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. View quote
George Steiner
Life may contain the "essence" (what else could?); recollection, the repetition in imagination, may decipher the essence and deliver to you the "elixir"; and eventually you may even be privileged to "make" something out of it, "to compound the story." But life itself is neither essence nor elixir, and if you treat as such it will only play its tricks on you. (Hannah Arendt)
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. View quote
Jerry Saltz
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? View quote
Günter Grass
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. View quote
Dan Brown
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? View quote
Milan Kundera
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories - and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. View quote
Milan Kundera
Relations of power, as I began to decipher them, have infused a great deal of my work over time-both poetry and prose. But poetry was where I could confront, perhaps transform, what I was experiencing and learning about the world. View quote
Adrienne Rich
My dear Mr. Morse: It was very pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. One can say to one's self every morning: "There's that letter of Morse's. I haven't read it yet. I think I'll take another shy at it to-day, and maybe I shall be able in the course of a few years to make out what he means by those t's that look like w's and those i's that haven't any eyebrows." Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever-unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich