Decipher Quote by George Steiner Download Open image “To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.” — George Steiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decipher Learning Significance Translate
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other. — Jennifer Abbott Copy Share Image
I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man,… — Natasha Tsakos Copy Share Image
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You look at them, the animals in the wild, and they stay the same. They have their rules which I cannot decipher, and there's… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my… — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
