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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. (Warren Bennis)
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. View quote
John le Carré
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. View quote
Jim Butcher
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. ..I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. View quote
Georges Braque
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
It is the political task of the social scientist - as of any liberal educator - continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work - and, as an educator, in his life as well - this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society. View quote
C. Wright Mills
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. View quote
C. Wright Mills
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. (Robert Anton Wilson)
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. View quote
George Orwell
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. View quote
Lin Yutang
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. View quote
Ricardo Semler
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. View quote
Anthony Doerr
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. View quote
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt. View quote
David Levithan
Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends. View quote
Jennifer Lee
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. (Alan Price)
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. View quote
Andreas Schleicher
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way. View quote
Charlotte Ronson
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. View quote
Dave Freudenthal
When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to? View quote
Eric Jerome Dickey