Variation Quotes

• Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

  Robert Hass

  Repetition, Feels, Secure

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fitness, Perseverance, Exercise

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• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Enemy, Quality

  "Basic Statistical Tools for Improving Quality". Book by Chang W. Kang, Paul H. Kvam, p. 19, 2012.

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• Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

  Mason Cooley

  Cheer, Upset, Three

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• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

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• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

  Alexander Kotov

  Tree, Analysis, Branches

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• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Branches

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

  William Saroyan

  Men, Remember, Every Man

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Originality is only variation.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Originality

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• I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Hair, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  Walter Gilbert

  Vigor, Responsible, Genes

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Repetition, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

  Ernst Mayr

  Evolution, Process, Certain

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

  Richard Owen

  Degrees, Kind, Judgment

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• If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Real, Skills, Asymmetry

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• A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

  David Ricardo

  Wages, Causes, Commodity

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.47

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• I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

  Johannes Brahms

  Sometimes, Form, Pondering

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• I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Gmos, Musical, Pieces

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• When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, World, Way

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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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• To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ocean, Tree, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

  Rachel Cohn

  Love, Thinking, Bullshit

  "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List". Book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, August 26, 2008.

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• When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Writing, Play

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