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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

Work, Reality, Keep

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch

Learning, Learn, Action

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Reality, Vision

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.
Jim Fowler

Around, Talking, Save

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

Music, Why, Often

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

Lonely, Away, Rather

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.
Megan Fox

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Reality, Place, Vision

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

Time, Greatest, Feelings

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
Theophile Gautier

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Miuccia Prada

Beauty, Political, Saying

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.

Good, Try, Speak

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
King Abdullah II

History, Political, Place

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John le Carre

Life, Political, Before

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Jeff Bezos

Leadership, Stronger, Greater

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
Karl Kraus

Hard, Thought, Often

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

Understand, Find, Word

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.
Anna Deavere Smith

Time, Reality, Matter

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt

Thought, Reason, Speak

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.
Willie Aames

Technology, Live, Kids

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

Reality, Special, Why

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
Albert Brooks

Best, School, Acting

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

Best, Alone, Live

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?
Andrea Arnold

Trying, Thought, Wrong

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy

Art, Movies, Different

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
Cornel West

Greed, Two, Impossible

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
Suzanne Farrell

Thought, Quite, Liked

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Callan McAuliffe

Poetry, Hard, Lost

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

Writing, Easy, Far

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

Art, Yourself, Trying

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