Top 25 Translate Quotes of 53

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Jorge Luis Borges

Originality, Unfaithful, Translate

Sobre el "Vathek"de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

Etgar Keret

Funny, Ninja, Translate

Speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival,

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

Spiro T. Agnew

Today, Foreign Policy, Translate

John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Milton H. Erickson

Language, Translate, Persons

Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.46, Ardent Media

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Fashion, Looks, Translate

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.

Martin Luther

Might, Notion, Translate

Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Jim Rohn

Strong, Feelings, Translate

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 08, 2017

Translating is writing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Writing, Translate

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Voltaire

Music, Impossible, Translate

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Matthieu Ricard

Mind, Suffering, Translate

Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

Kobi Yamada

Travel, Translate, Knows

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

David Byrne

Music, Translate, Knows

Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2004.

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

Beth Comstock

Jobs, Action, Translate

Color transmits and translates emotion.

Wassily Kandinsky

Color, Emotion, Translate

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

W. H. Auden

Two, Translate, Reader

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

Northrop Frye

Writing, Aphorism, Translate

Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz,'The Literature Professors' Literature Professor', in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall1978.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

John G. Miller

Learning, Knowing, Translate

John G. Miller (2001). “QBQ!: The Question Behind the Question”

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tongue, Language, Translate

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Wanda Koop

Desire, Appetite, Translate

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Octavio Paz

Speak, Translate

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Tests, Translate, Understood

C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

Napoleon Hill

Feelings, Given, Translate

Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA