Quotes by Variation A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice. Al Yankovic variationvoicecartoon After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice. Alexander Kotov variationsacrificeviews In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. Alexander Kotov variationanalysistree The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male. Alfred Kinsey variationmalesfemale Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar. Antonio Damasio variationessencejoy 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 variationtunesmen In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. Bent Larsen variationchessinteresting I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' Brian Ferneyhough gmosvariationmusical Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants' Bruce Springsteen variationrockssong 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 variationunjuststress There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. C. S. Lewis normvariationobvious My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed. Carl Andre variationlimitspeople The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible. Carlo Grante variationessentialsinteresting 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 variationnoveltypast First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. Carolyn Hax variationgroupsfirsts 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 variationopportunityworld 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 owingvariationstruggle 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 variationnaturalsteps It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. Charles Darwin variationdestroyedeconomics There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations. Charles James silhouettesvariationshapes12345678»
