Transcription Quotes

• Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Painting, Intimate

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

  Gary Hamel

  Errors, Contemplating, Humans

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?

  George Steiner

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.191, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

  Hank Azaria

  Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

  Anthony Doerr

  Memories, Past, Stories

  Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

  Carol Tavris

  Book, Psychology, Research

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• What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Mistake, Voice, Less Is More

  "What Fools Have Never Heard of Cynthia Ozick?". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2016.

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• While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Stories, Natural, Method

  Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”

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• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Exercise

  "Home Education".

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• It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system.

  Sydney Brenner

  Lying, Numbers, Long

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