Top Variation Quotes Collection

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Image of Jacqueline Carey
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
- Jacqueline Carey
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Image of Niccolo Paganini
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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Image of Masaaki Imai
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
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Image of Maurice Samuel
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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Image of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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
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Image of Walter A. Shewhart
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.
- Walter A. Shewhart
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Image of Charles James
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
- Charles James
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Image of Robert Hass
Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.
- Robert Hass
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Image of Holbrook Jackson
Originality is only variation.
- Holbrook Jackson
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Image of John Dieterich
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.
- John Dieterich
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Image of E. O. Wilson
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
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Image of David Ricardo
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
- David Ricardo
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Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Image of Charles Darwin
It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
- Charles Darwin
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Image of Gichin Funakoshi
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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Image of W. Edwards Deming
We must understand variation.
- W. Edwards Deming
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Image of Charles Darwin
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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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Maya Tiwari
I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.
- Maya Tiwari
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Image of Khaled Hosseini
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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Image of Jim Jarmusch
I'm very interested in variations.
- Jim Jarmusch
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Image of Jim Jarmusch
I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.
- Jim Jarmusch
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Image of C. S. Lewis
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
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Image of Daniel Barenboim
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.
- Daniel Barenboim
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Image of Mary McCarthy
Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.
- Mary McCarthy
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