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• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

  Leonard Cohen

  Prayer, Children, Men

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.78, Vintage

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• With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

  David Byrne

  Music, Knows

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2004.

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Play, Effort

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.482, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.

  Annie Besant

  Sight, Feelings, World

  Annie Besant (2016). “Karma”, p.14, BookRix

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• Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

  Gruff Rhys

  Language, Obsession, Pun

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

  Aimee Mann

  Perspective, Lost, Hard

  Song: Invisible Ink, Album: Lost In Space, 2002

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• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

  Arnold Bennett

  Music, Wisdom, Dope

  Arnold Bennett (2004). “Sacred and Profane Love”, p.14, online-ebooks.info

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• I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mind, Trying, Relief

  1971 TheWill to Change,'Planetarium'.

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• One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

  Fay Weldon

  Definitions, Facts, Habit

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• ... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jobs, Children, Home

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• Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Speak English, Voice

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• Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.

  Sonya Sones

  Rain, Reading, Heart

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• He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

  Emily Giffin

  Thinking, Might, Easy

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.300, Macmillan

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• The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Impression

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Book, Writing

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• By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

  Emma Stone

  Interesting, Different, Emotion

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Long, Forgiving, Desire

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• I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

  Ladyhawke

  Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

  Raymond Kelly

  Hate, War, Hatred

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

  Fernando Mastrangelo

  Art, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear "fashion" they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist. If you can bring your own concept or your viewpoint and translate it not down but out, then you're really successful in the truest sense.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Successful, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Technology, Looks

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

  George Orwell

  Worst Enemy, Nineteen, Nervous

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.52, Arcturus Publishing

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