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Converting Quotes

Quotes on converting ideas, industries, and outlooks into something new.

These quotes use 'converting' to describe meaningful transformation, including turning a global health crisis into a manageable condition rather than a death sentence. Another reflects on converting historical analogies into a map for navigating the future.

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

Fox News has been a force in converting the party of Lincoln into the party of Trump. The network's allegiance to Trump approaches mindless adoration.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

Quotes by Ralph H. Baer

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

Always Quotes

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty...

Quotes by Michael Azerrad

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Quotes by Max Planck

My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The...

Quotes by Louis Leterrier

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking...

Quotes by Liz Williams

Believe Quotes

I've sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it's expensive to...

Quotes by Justin Lin

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going...

Quotes by John Dykstra

There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge...

Quotes by Ginnifer Goodwin

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

Quotes by George Soros

Hindu nationalist outfits like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh perpetuate a false notion of the 'love jihad' - the false idea that young Muslim men are making Hindu girls fall in love with them to trick them into converting to Islam.

Quotes by Elizabeth Flock

Camera Quotes

I think it's really difficult to justify converting a film that wasn't shot in 3-D into 3-D. I really do believe, as does James Cameron and all the people who are actually pro-3-D, that you have to go out and...

Quotes by David Slade

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

Quotes by Clint Eastwood

In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.

Quotes by Chris Wooding

As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.

Quotes by Christen Press

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting...

Quotes by Ben Rattray

Me Quotes

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

Quotes by Antonin Scalia

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the "Converting" page cover?
The quotes look at conversion in different senses — converting immature thought into something dangerous, converting movies to 3D for a market, and converting a health crisis into something more manageable.
Why would someone search for quotes about "converting"?
The word applies to changing formats, changing outcomes, and changing minds alike, so people look here for language about transformation in business, health, or ideas.
What does the quote about liberty of thought and converting men into animals mean?
It warns that immature or undisciplined thinking, when given full freedom, can be twisted into something destructive rather than enlightening.
What does the page say about converting movies to 3D?
One quote criticizes the practice as being driven mainly by profit in markets like China, while noting the long hours workers there put in, without further elaborating a position.
What does the quote about UNAIDS and converting AIDS mean?
It credits UNAIDS' leadership with helping change how AIDS is understood, moving it from being seen as a certain death sentence to being managed as a chronic health condition, and the speaker states they Believe this leadership made a real difference.

A more cautionary quote warns that immature liberty of thought can become a method of converting people into something lesser, alongside a note on converting movies to 3D for a specific market. See Believe and Always quotes.