Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performanc...
I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
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.
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
John: Why do you have to point out how stupid everyone is all the time?
Stills Photographer: Are you drinking, no? Bob: Am I drinking? As soon as I'm done.
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
