Dec 12, 2012 12:28
11 yrs ago
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Spanish term
La mejor improvisación es la que se prepara con antelación.
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Actually taken from a sales procedure manual (Spain). This quote appears on one of the pages and is attributed to one William Shakespeare!
I thought this would be an easy find, but I've had no luck so far in finding the original quote in English.
Any help much appreciated!
I thought this would be an easy find, but I've had no luck so far in finding the original quote in English.
Any help much appreciated!
Proposed translations
(English)
References
Source | Charles Davis |
Proposed translations
1 day 3 hrs
Selected
The best improvisations are prepared beforehand.
The use of "prepared beforehand" instead of the previously suggested "improvised beforehand" is a more accurate translation and reads more clearly in English as well.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks very much to everyone for all their hard work!"
+1
40 mins
The best improvisation is the one that was well-prepared.
I found a single reference to the above English quote, but no reference to the Shakespeare play in which it supposedly appears. I think that, as others have said here, it is a misattribution.
Other versions would be:
The best improvisation results from careful preparation.
The best improvisation is the product of careful preparation.
etc.
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Note added at 40 mins (2012-12-12 13:09:45 GMT)
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Reference for posted translation:
www.theprintcoach.com/2010/10/outcome-based-selling
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Note added at 47 mins (2012-12-12 13:16:23 GMT)
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Will:
If it should prove that (as seems evident) the quote is not from Shakespeare, you can correct the error in the translation by removing attribution to Shakespeare, with a note to your client.
Other versions would be:
The best improvisation results from careful preparation.
The best improvisation is the product of careful preparation.
etc.
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Note added at 40 mins (2012-12-12 13:09:45 GMT)
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Reference for posted translation:
www.theprintcoach.com/2010/10/outcome-based-selling
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Note added at 47 mins (2012-12-12 13:16:23 GMT)
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Will:
If it should prove that (as seems evident) the quote is not from Shakespeare, you can correct the error in the translation by removing attribution to Shakespeare, with a note to your client.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Frances Riddle
: The best improvisation results from careful preparation.
1 day 2 hrs
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+4
1 hr
The best improvisations are improvised beforehand
It's not Shakespeare, it's Nathan Sheppard.
Example sentence:
As Nathan Sheppard wrote in a long—forgotten handbook for public speakers: "the best improvisations are improvised beforehand."
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Charles Davis
: Bingo!
11 mins
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agree |
Marian Vieyra
52 mins
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agree |
patinba
1 hr
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agree |
Evans (X)
1 hr
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Reference comments
2 hrs
Reference:
Source
Nathan Sheppard, Before an Audience, or, The Use of the Will in Public Speaking. Talks to Students of the University of St. Andrews and the University of Aberdeen (New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886), p. 134:
"The memory gets its culture out of this rehearsal. I repeat that the best improvisations are improvised beforehand. The best impromptu speeches are committed to memory."
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/nathan-sheppard/before...
Earlier, on p. 74, is this quotation, attributed to the actor Edmund Kean: "All is studied beforehand. The speeches which, to my certain knowledge, sounded most impromptu were the most carefully studied beforehand."
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/nathan-sheppard/before...
This has got to be it.
"The memory gets its culture out of this rehearsal. I repeat that the best improvisations are improvised beforehand. The best impromptu speeches are committed to memory."
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/nathan-sheppard/before...
Earlier, on p. 74, is this quotation, attributed to the actor Edmund Kean: "All is studied beforehand. The speeches which, to my certain knowledge, sounded most impromptu were the most carefully studied beforehand."
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/nathan-sheppard/before...
This has got to be it.
Discussion
An interesting possibility is that the Spanish/Portuguese represents a loose translation of an English-language quote that came from someone other than Shakespeare. But one who would hope to get the bottom of that had better be prepared for some time-consuming digging....