Converts Quotations

There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

The Onscreen Financial Statement converts data into useful and actionable business information. Managers can identify and assess vulnerable areas for one or all of their stores. It helps them to keep pace with daily business activities and mitigates negatives month-end impacts.

New converts feel they have to prove themselves. Those who seek more extreme ways of proving themselves can become extraordinarily easy prey to manipulation.

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

It converts them from a national to an international company. There's been an uncertainty as to where (the companies' relationship) is going. Now that's cleared up.

Manufacturers must streamline the innovation engine with a greater collaboration and knowledge-sharing environment. They must ensure great research converts to competitive products by responding quickly to evolving market needs and do more than increase R&D spending.

As the state converts to ethanol for gasoline, we want to get the ball rolling for electricity as well.

The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.

The solar cell converts sunlight into electricity, ... or as AeroVironment likes to say, the plane is powered by it's shadow.

Rather than creating conditions that allow American workers to fill jobs at higher wages, what the president is proposing merely converts low wage illegal aliens into low wage workers with visas. Our economy would have to adapt if the influx of cheap foreign labor is ended, but that is an adjustment strongly desired by a majority of Americans, whether native-born or foreign-born. The concept that our economy must be served by a permanent under-class of foreign guest workers is reprehensible and unacceptable.

This is a game that we as a team always look forward to. Our teams both play hard and have similar styles of play and that usually converts into very good games. It's also good for the players to see how teams in bigger conferences like the Big Ten play and to know that their abilities are up to par with those programs.

They're shooting almost 40 percent. That in itself is remarkable, unheard of. It converts to a lot of points. And to have to recycle our team to find a way to match up against them is not easy. It's not conventional.

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.

In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

Cesar took genuine pride in producing numerous converts to vegetarianism over the decades. You?re looking at one of them. He felt so strongly about it that sometimes I think he took as much personal satisfaction from converting people to vegetarianism as he did to trade unionism.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.