Communication Quote by Gregory Rabassa Download Open image “Every act of communication is an act of translation.” — Gregory Rabassa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Translations
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
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
Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling must shift… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because all he… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
