"To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate."

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Source : George Steiner (1998). “After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation”, p.12, Oxford Paperbacks

George Steiner

#Significance Quotes #Translate Quotes

“When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto â€˜how you can turn this into something beautifulâ€™ pretty remarkable things start to happen.”
“If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.259, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.”
“The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.”
“We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late......”
“The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.”

Source : Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin
“For the Earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds.”
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”

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