Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations… — Raquel Cepeda
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male. — Alfred Kinsey
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… — Alexander Kotov
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… — Charles Tilly
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… — Joe Queenan
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… — Hans Richter
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. — Alexander Kotov
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… — Mark Dvoretsky
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… — Alexander Kotov
You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you. — Courtney Summers
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half — Jan Timman
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation — Lillian Hellman
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out'… — Savielly Tartakower
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… — Lev Polugaevsky
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
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. — Mikhail Botvinnik
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… — Mikhail Botvinnik
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
His brothers were the type; he was the variation. — Henry Adams

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212 authors contributed a total of 250 Variation Quotes, led by these top contributors: