Variations Quotes

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Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective. — Emanuel Lasker
It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. — Savielly Tartakower
Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find… — Alexander Kotov
If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't… — Alexander Kotov
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it — Niccolo Paganini
Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole,… — Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… — Gerhard Richter
Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito,… — Sharlto Copley
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without… — Emanuel Ax

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