Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining oneâ€™s balance in spite of them. Even with… — Carl von Clausewitz
I think certain types of processes donâ€™t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is… — Haruki Murakami
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal… — Miyamoto Musashi
VariaciÃ³n / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided… — Glen Duncan
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of… — Marc Maron
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even… — Antony Tudor
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
I knew I could not live my life around a husband, now would I want a husband to live his life around me. Of course,… — Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing… — Ian Mckellen
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor… — Charles Darwin
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material… — Stephen Jay Gould
When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The… — Dalai Lama
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was… — Hendrik Poinar
I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more… — Charles Duke
After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique… — Yotam Ottolenghi
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If… — Bill Gates
I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise… — Robert Pinsky
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else… — James A. Michener

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