(126 quotes found)
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren G. Bennis
“Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.”
“Translation is at best an echo.”
George Borrow
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style”
William Shakespeare
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality”
Heywood C. Broun
“Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.”
James Howell
“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
“The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.”
Sheldon Kopp
“A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-create the thought and emotion of an unknown person-the composer-which can sometimes be a transfiguring experience.”
Charles Munch
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