Variation Quotes - Page 6

• Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

  David Ricardo

  Levels, Limits, Settling

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.84

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• The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

  Neil Pasricha

  Food, Long, Three

  Neil Pasricha (2010). “The Book of Awesome”, p.68, Penguin

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• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  Hank Azaria

  Class, Two, Focus

  "Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Common Talk HAPPY FEET TWO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Owing, Causes

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Opportunity, World, May

  Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, Peter Gautrey (1989). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 15: On the Origin of Species, 1859”, p.62, NYU Press

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• Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

  Franz Liszt

  Composer, Brahms, Mines

  "Remembering Franz Liszt" by Arthur Friedheim and Alexander Siloti, (p. 138), 1961.

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• There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

  C. S. Lewis

  Obvious, Norm, Subtlety

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• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Mastery

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Moving, Science, Order

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.

  Paul Washer

  Catholic, Different, Opinion

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• Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

  E. O. Wilson

  Benefits, Earth, Study

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• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

  Charles Tilly

  Thinking, Hands, Political

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• The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.

  Joe Queenan

  Philosophy, Believe, Ocean

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• It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say, a rhythmical movement regulated by itself in which variations and pulsations form a part of the artistic design.

  Hans Richter

  Expression, Giving, Design

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• Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Pride, Doe

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• It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Play, Interesting

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

  Alexander Kotov

  Sacrifice, Views, Literature

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• Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

  Lillian Hellman

  Confidence, Statistician, Frequency

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• Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

  Savielly Tartakower

  Wise, Chess, Prohibition

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• A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Memories, Emotional, What If

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• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Algorithms

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• Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Book, Memorization, Chess

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• When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Time, Opponents, Chess

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Twenties, Example

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

  Henry Adams

  Family, Brother, Type

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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