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Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.
Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.
American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.
We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words.
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.
That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.
It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
'Que Sera Sera' had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman's beats and translate them into dance steps.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text from it.
I believed in what I was. I didn't believe that would translate into any of the five championships. But I knew that I could affect the game.
I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.
In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
I think there are people that don't think 'SNL' should make movies because sketches don't translate. Sometimes they don't, but sometimes they do.
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.
I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and cures.