Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

classic quote by Havelock Ellis
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

quote by Warren G. Bennis
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

quote by Utada Hikaru
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The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

quote by Placido Domingo
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

quote by Utada Hikaru
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.

quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations.

quote by Helmuth von Moltke cel Bătrân
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Translation: To get along very well.

Arabian proverbs
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Translation: To run out of patience.

Arabian proverbs
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

quote by Alan Price
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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

quote by Theophile Gautier
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Hamlet: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.

classic line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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The Language of Translation

What could be a better language than the language of translation
A white curtain on which
All our handiwork stands apart like dirt

All crimes are perpetrated in mother tongues
Which always contain a discourse on innocence

There are times
When translation is the only place that has a remnant of sorts
The sound of tyranny in the native tongue
Is killing sympathy!

(Translated from Hindi by Bharatbhooshan Tiwari)

poem by Asad Zaidi
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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

quote by Robert Fitzgerald
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

quote by Jimmy Buffett
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

quote by Victoria Pratt
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On the way to Baling

West from Lake Dongting is the Young Maid's Shrine,
Where painted eyebrows come to comfort the traveler.
This mountain district is deserted, and shops close early;
Watchtower lamps seem distant, as my boat moors late.
I don't understand the dialect and yearn for a translator;
Strange birds without names shame my skill as a poet.
Still it's wonderful how the boatmen understand my desires -
Each time I open the window, we face a branch full of flowers!

poem by Yuan Mei, translated by J.D. Schmidt
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It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

quote by Joe Lando
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You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.

quote by Karl Kraus
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

quote by Voltaire
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