Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work… — Alexander Kotov
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. — Leonid Shamkovich
The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many… — Seth Godin
I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should… — Thulasiraj Ravilla
Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male… — Daniel Suarez
What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human… — John Guare
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no… — Maurice Druon
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule. — Leslie Feinberg
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire… — Lin Yutang
Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our… — Charles Kellogg
Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music… — Pierre Schaeffer
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I… — Pal Benko
In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. — Bent Larsen
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen… — Bent Larsen
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire.… — Lev Polugaevsky
From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have… — Efim Geller
Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist… — Larry Kramer

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