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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. -- Amy Poehler
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. -- Drake
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. -- Warren G. Bennis
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. -- Jim Rohn
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. -- Voltaire
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids. -- Willie Aames
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. -- Jeff Bezos
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Boris Pasternak
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. -- Bertrand Russell
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. -- Jim Rohn
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind. -- Adrienne Rich
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. -- Ayn Rand
I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words. -- Cesar Millan
Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep. -- Kiersten White
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well because they have a "flair" for translation, but rather because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work. -- Mona Baker
The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith. -- Napoleon Hill
You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation. -- Jim Rohn
To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change. -- Marci Shimoff
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind... -- Ayn Rand
Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Translate goals into practice + repetition = success! -- Keith Ferrazzi
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. -- Grenville Kleiser
I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make. -- William Blake
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives. -- Henry David Thoreau
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. -- Warren G. Bennis
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. -- Josh Peck
That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership. -- David Campbell
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. -- Jack Welch
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. -- Jim Rash
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. -- Tom Clancy
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'. -- Linus Torvalds
Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability. -- Harvey Mackay
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them. -- Tig Notaro
When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to? -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. -- Richard Engel
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate. -- Maya Angelou
When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics. -- Stuart Scott
I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing. -- Yolanda Adams
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. -- Stephen Colbert
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you. -- Trey Anastasio
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that. -- Sue Monk Kidd
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena. -- John Roos
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. -- Frank Ocean
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. -- John le Carre
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. -- Emile Durkheim
I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry. -- Malcolm D. Lee
Another breath, left to translate -- Susan Voth
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does. -- Lucille Clifton
He doesn't translate well into our generation. -- Donald Sutherland
Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all. -- Megan Fox
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. -- David Lynch
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. -- Octavio Paz
Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance. -- Alexandra Robbins
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. -- Alan Price
The problem is that it is difficult to translate. -- Elfriede Jelinek
Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. -- Juan Williams
Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor. -- Luis Negron
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate. -- Wanda Koop
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music? -- Voltaire
Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life. -- Eoin Colfer
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension. -- F. Matthias Alexander
In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. -- Milton H. Erickson
To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. -- George Steiner
To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. -- Grace Paley
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint. -- Erica Jong
I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate. -- Ann Goldstein
Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent. -- John Arlott
It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard. -- Ann Goldstein
When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible. -- Don Maruska
It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. -- Cornel West
Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know. -- Kobi Yamada
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off. -- Alison Krauss
Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity. -- Patricia Aburdene
The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds. -- Sun Tzu
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. -- C. S. Lewis
I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career. -- Michelle Obama
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives. -- Andreas Schleicher
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives -- Andreas Schleicher
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance. -- Raymond Cruz
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. -- Northrop Frye
I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning. -- Prince Royce
It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series. -- Carlton Cuse
I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't. -- Joe Sacco
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. -- Horace
Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. -- Aimee Mann
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. -- Theophile Gautier
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. -- Matthew Syed
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. -- Barack Obama
There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. -- Jim Butcher
In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills. -- John Roos
Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket. -- Ehab Atalla
Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action. -- Beth Comstock
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. -- Karl Kraus
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV. -- Ree Drummond
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors. -- Benjamin Graham
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. -- John Denham
Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last. -- Norman Lear
Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life. -- Brian Tracy
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. -- Arnold Bennett
You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action. -- Paul McCabe
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. -- Jim Rash
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. -- Christopher Wren
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. -- Ernest Becker
Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands -- Francesca Woodman
You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions. -- Alicia Vikander
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. -- David Byrne
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. -- Maya Angelou
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. -- George Muller
In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it. -- Jesse Jackson
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation. -- Ricardo Semler
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action -- Cindy Gallop
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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