Quotes About Variation

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed to be both stable as an entity and mutable in response to environment, though it must be said that this complex equilibrium is amazing and beautiful and everywhere repeated in a wealth of variations that can seem like virtuosity regaling itself with its own brilliance.

Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.

In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different. Different starts in life. Different paths to leadership. Different cultures.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

Mike, happy cities are all alike, but every unhappy city is unhappy in its own way.

Persecution is only an attempt to do that overtly and with violence, which the community is, in self-defense, perpetually doing unconsciously and in silence. In many societies variation of belief is practically impossible. In other societies it is permitted only along certain definite lines. In no society that has ever existed, or could be conceived as existing, are opinions equally free (in the scientific sense of the term, not the legal) to develop themselves indifferently in all directions.

In the life of man there are no two moments of pleasure exactly alike, any more than there are two leaves of identical shape upon the same tree.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

You don't have to follow every recipe to the letter.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.

You're not always going to be able to run in and blast someone out. Sometimes it might be different lines and lengths, change-ups or reductions in pace.

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at every one of her heart-throbs, so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness.

For essential beauty is infinite; and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at any one of her heart-throbs; so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness.

Normalno?? nie jest kwesti? statystyki.

Jättes kõrvale vajaduse elatist teenida, on minu meelest kirjutamisel, vähemalt proosa kirjutamisel, neli suurt motiivi. Erineval määral eksisteerivad nad igas kirjanikus, proportsiooniti aeg-ajalt varieerudes vastavalt õhkkonnale, milles ta elab.