Variation Quotes - Page 4

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

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 that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

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.

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.'

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.

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 one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence.

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?