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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

  Voltaire

  Music, Impossible

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• Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

  Eoin Colfer

  Real, Paper, Sometimes

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Science

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.264

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• Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didnt know how to write... so...

  David Cross

  Bible, Kings, Writing

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• Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

  Etgar Keret

  Funny, Ninja, Translators

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival,

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• As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Copying, Might

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• Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

  George Steiner

  Silence, Borders, World

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• If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

  Willy Brandt

  Understanding, Germany, Demand

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• Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well because they have a "flair" for translation, but rather because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work.

  Mona Baker

  Effort, Language, Conscious

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Swings

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• All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

  Frances Mayes

  Notebook, Color, Sky

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• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stronger, Velocity, Return

  "A sign outside Amazon's new Australian warehouse is a reminder of how Jeff Bezos crushes his rivals" by Tony Yoo, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 2, 2017.

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• Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Mean, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2260, Penguin

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• Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

  Amy Poehler

  Cousin, Forever, Trying

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• What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Reflection, Issues

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

  Cindy Gallop

  World, Action, Good Intentions

  "Yes, we plan: how altruism and advertising could change the world" by Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. March 3, 2009.

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• You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have.

  Jim Rohn

  Preparation, Speak, Share

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 12, 2016

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• From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

  Alex Campbell

  Political, Economic, Process

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• When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Philosophy, Home, Men

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Mysterious

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• Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But we must go on or we will all go under. And the great criticism that can be made is that the world lacks a plan that will enable us to go on . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity - into actuality.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Dream, War, Imagination

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• I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.

  Felipe Esparza

  Comedian, Mexico, Comedy

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• [Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Skills

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• I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

  Lunice

  Ideas, Musical, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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