Translating Quotes

72 quotes by 68 authors

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness… — Ayn Rand
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating… — Helen Frankenthaler
Iâ€™m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields â€“ people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into… — Kevin Systrom
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had… — P D Ouspensky
For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of… — Ken Wilber
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into… — Henry Flynt
But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that… — Marcus du Sautoy
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as… — Michael Faraday
I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. — Iris Murdoch
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action. — Howard Rheingold
I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from… — Joel Siegel
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford
Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. — John G. Miller
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos
In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating… — Sheryl Sandberg
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… — H. L. Mencken
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… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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