Quotes About Variety

You never know, life is short but it's wide

Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time.

Morality, like art, is the achievement of unity in diversity; the highest type of man is he who effectively unites in himself the widest variety, complexity, and completeness of life.

Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]

It was a modest invention, but its uses were so varied that man always looked upon it as a symbol of power and authority, from the wand of the fairies and the staff of the shepherd to the rod of Moses or Aaron, the ivory cane of the Roman consul, the lituus of the augurs, and the mace of the magistrate or the king.

Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully efficient and enduringly ideal. The place to acquire these wonderful objects is in a bookshop, where thousands upon thousands of varieties await you. There is no substitute for the real thing.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the feelings on the one hand and the conduct on the other are almost always the same, for Stoic, Christian, and Buddhist saints are practically indistinguishable

Love comes in so many forms, and pain is no different.

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Variety is the spice of life." But notice that it does not say, "Variety is the entrée of life." Nobody dines on pepper and oregano. A little novelty can go a long way. Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them. Not all the time—just enough to keep those brown shoes looking fresh.

The Paradox of Choice

by disrupting routines, we can create more peaks.

She had spent the majority of her days in some sort of a tizzy and had developed over the course of her life a tizzy repertoire of abundant variety, from the black depressive tizzy to the anxious weepy tizzy to the more traditional furious tizzy, which almost always involved projectiles.

We are entering an era of unprecedented choice. And thats a good thing.

Broadly, the Long Tail is about abundance. Abundant shelf space, abundant distribution, abundant choice.

Chris Anderson

The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all those niches, when aggregated, can make up a significant market - seemed indisputable, especially baked up with heretofore unseen data.

People are complicated; that's why crayons come in boxes of sixty-four.

Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative". Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about. Crime, I'm conservative. Prostitution, I'm liberal!

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.