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Quotes About Combinations

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Andy was one of those delightful combinations of bigotry and ignorance, an arrogant man who had no mind to speak of and spoke it.
~ Thomas King
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
~ Charlie Trotter
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
~ leary timothy iii
I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.
~ Kurt Maflin
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
~ Henri Poincare
When our positioning and ball game and passing is not that good, then my game is struggling as well. I can score from set pieces and so on, but I have to be involved in the combinations, make my runs without the ball, go deep.
~ Thomas Muller
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
~ Josiah Warren
The technique was at least moderately well known, for Ibn Khald?n wrote in The Muqaddimah: "Occasionally, skillful secretaries, though not the first to invent a code [and with no previous knowledge of it], nonetheless find rules [for solving it] through combinations which they evolve for the purpose with the help of their intelligence, and which they call 'solving the puzzle [cryptanalysis].
~ David Kahn
The number of combinations possible and hence the number of different thoughts or brain states each of us can have exceeds the number of known particles in the entire known universe.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
~ Craig Venter
Not "brook" [in German: Bach], but "sea" should he [Johann Sebastian Bach] be called because of his infinite, inexhaustible richness in tone combinations and harmonies. (Nicht Bach! Meer sollte er heissen: wegen seines unendlichen, unerschoepflichen Reichtums an Tonkombinationen und Harmonien.)
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The alphabet is male and female. If you will know the correct order of letters, you make a world, you make creation. This is why they will hide the order. If you will know the combinations, you make all life and death.
~ Don DeLillo
He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.
~ Johannes Itten
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
~ Charlie Trotter
Tallal's research showed that children with language disabilities have auditory processing problems with common consonant-vowel combinations that are spoken quickly and are called "the fast parts of speech." The children have trouble hearing them accurately and, as a result, reproducing them accurately.
~ Norman Doidge
butter and jelly. Two chocolate
~ Patricia Reilly Giff
Leaves as vowels, whispers of words like a breath of net. Leaves are vowels, I sweep them up hoping to find the combinations I am looking for.
~ Patti Smith
Your friend has an odd sense of color combinations." "The house belongs to an ex-cop," I said, as if that explained it.
~ Paul Levine
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
~ Paul Valery