Variations Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the… — Efim Geller
The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million… — Anais Nin
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had… — Tim Meadows
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words.… — Howard Snell
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs

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