Quotes About Variation

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.

If you listen to five nights of Led Zeppelin back to back they are all different.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Everything changes but change itself.

Everything changes but change.

Circumstances alter cases.

I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale of succulence. She'd try new methods.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

You know what the material is so that you never play it the same way twice.

I don't like to write the same song twice.

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.