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Variation Quotes

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There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
Charles James

There are not many groundbreaking forms or outlines -- merely a multitude of permutations.
Authors on Variation Quotes: Charles Darwin David Ricardo Jim Jarmusch W. Edwards Deming Mikhail Botvinnik E. O. Wilson Stephen Jay Gould Alexander Kotov Ernst Mayr Richard Dawkins Erwin Schrodinger Savielly Tartakower William Saroyan John Lennon Debra Winger Isabel Briggs Myers Lorna Byrne Peter Eisenman Sherilyn Fenn Jose Raul Capablanca Arthur Schopenhauer James MacDonald Daniel Barenboim Neal A. Maxwell Michael Shannon Tori Amos John Rawls Bruce Springsteen Gloria Steinem Nikos Kazantzakis Eric Schmidt Richard Holbrooke Maurice Druon
2.
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.
Masaaki Imai

3.
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.
Jose Raul Capablanca

4.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
Erwin Schrodinger

5.
Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
W. Edwards Deming

6.
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

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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 variations.
Mikhail Botvinnik

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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 his variations.
Fernand Point

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Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.
Walter A. Shewhart

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A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.
David Ricardo

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It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.
Maurice Samuel

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There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Carlos Fuentes

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The differing opinions regarding the gospel are often categorized as different variations of the same truth, or coming at the same truth from different angles, or even emphasizing different aspects of the same truth. This fails to recognize that the different 'variations' are often altogether different gospels. The Reformed gospel is completely different from the Roman Catholic gospel; a faith-based gospel is in direct contradiction to a works-based gospel; a truly evangelical gospel stands in contrast to an ultracharismatic gospel.
Paul Washer

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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 waiting for the entire piece to end.
Emanuel Ax

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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.
Charles Darwin

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It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
Savielly Tartakower

18.
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
Alfred Kinsey

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A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.
Gichin Funakoshi

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Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

21.
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
Byron Katie

22.
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman

23.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Peter Eisenman

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Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.
Charles Darwin

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Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.
Khaled Hosseini

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I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.
Pamela Anderson

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Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.
Ernst Mayr

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Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?
Savielly Tartakower

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I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
John Towner Williams

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There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially.
Gloria Allred

31.
The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it
Niccolo Paganini

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There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
John Lennon

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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

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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
Charles Darwin

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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 know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.
Debi Mazar

36.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
William Saroyan

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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 different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!
Tim Meadows

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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 that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory...
Erwin Schrodinger

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Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
Claude Debussy

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Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.
W. Edwards Deming

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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 same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.
Efim Geller

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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.
E. O. Wilson

44.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt

45.
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

46.
We must understand variation.
W. Edwards Deming

47.
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors.
Ronald Fisher

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... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.
Isabel Briggs Myers

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Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.
Hermann Joseph Muller

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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