Quotes and Sayings About Variation
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In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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 -
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
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 -
In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.
-- Bent Larsen -
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 -
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 -
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
-- Charles Darwin -
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 -
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 -
This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.
-- Charles Darwin -
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
-- Charles James -
I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.
-- Christopher Krovatin -
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 -
You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.
-- Courtney Summers -
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
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 -
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 -
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits;...
-- David Ricardo -
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.
-- David Ricardo -
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.
-- Debra Winger -
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
-- Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
-- Edmar Mednis -
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 -
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
-- Ellsworth Huntington -
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 -
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
-- Emanuel Lasker -
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
-- Ernst Mayr -
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
