Variation Quotes

250 quotes by 212 authors

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with… — Fernand Point
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the… — Kenny Smith
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell… — Lin Yutang
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. — Charles James
My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country… — Vaclav Havel
Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that… — Timothy Keller
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,… — Louis Bromfield
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are… — Mark Mothersbaugh
I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had… — Michael E. Mann
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… — Richard Owen
I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes round-trip with a variation of… — Ana Ortiz
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… — Dave Van Ronk
I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of… — Michael Shannon
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and… — George C. Williams
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating… — Richard Pascale
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the… — Kenneth Lonergan
As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly… — Debi Mazar
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. — Ernst Mayr

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