Definition of Turning

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Turning

of Turn

The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.

The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.

Deviation from the way or proper course.

Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.

The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.

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Turning Quotations

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas Gandhi

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Jack Welch

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
Charles Spurgeon

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Mel Brooks

This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher

Turning Translations

turning in German is schaltend, drehende, drehend

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