Contextual Factors Quotes

The major problem with most attempts to predict a specific outcome, such as interviews, is decontextualization: the attempt takes place in a generalized environment, as opposed to the context in which a behavior or trait naturally occurs.

So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

You're only as good as your options and your surroundings.

July does not a November election make.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut.

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is.