Variation Quotes - Page 6

I'm very interested in variations.

I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

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.

It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

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.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.