In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words… and then you start to create a work of art, and that’s another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.
In ‘Saami,’ I take a poor dhobi’s son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally he points to the boy’s bare body. Immediately, I tear the furnishings off the office chair to convert them into clothes for the boy.
We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we’re going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I’m skinny, I don’t have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.
I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
After you score 300 runs in one innings, you begin to feel that every innings should be close to this one. Of course, I know that won’t happen. But I will be disappointed if I get going well and am unable to convert it into a huge score.
I can’t wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert ‘Terminator 2’ to 3D more than I want anything in the world.
My ma is from County Clare, so she’s a Munster fan, so she keeps sending me Munster jerseys all the time, trying to convert me to Munster.
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
If we want to impact hundreds – or millions – of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
‘Entity’ is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it’s not like a dance about Einstein where I’m trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
It’s obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.
We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
My career has been defined, in a good way, on the option route. And a lot of times, it’s a bang-bang play. It’s a great play because it can convert first downs. But at the same time, you don’t get a lot of those opportunities in the open field.
If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn’t feel like a shock.
Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn’t quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that’s how I always try to start my thoughts.
When it’s my show, I know that everybody is there to see me – but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals, not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.
The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!
I like to customize my tights by cutting them myself to create a stirrup or convert the look into a capri.
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.
In a free country like India, where you are free to practice any religion and pray – whether gurudwara, masjid, temple – why should anyone be forced to convert? Why should anyone be mislead or misinformed or real identity be kept and the real name be hidden.
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: ‘How can you hate me when you don’t even know me.’
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
I’m very private in person. I’m very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I’m talking, maybe there’s this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we’re able to solve that equation.
When I had my television show, ‘Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,’ it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her – with the hardest possible children to convert.
How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
As a striker, you always try to convert your chances, give everything when training.
Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
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