#translate

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

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

#alone #always #been #best #comedy

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#capacity #into #reality #translate #vision

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly. ↗

— Kesha

#intentions #like #out #properly #translated

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#case #desire #done #easiest #easiest way

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. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

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. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#just #kind #once #reality #special

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#also #been #demand #doubt #english