Quotes About Variation

Normal is the average of deviance.

When things that normally work aren't working, you have to go to something else.

New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

If you've noticed that dumbbells work better than barbells for you on the bench press, then why change that?

Every now and then you might have to change things around. It's not something that is good to do a lot - especially with your batting - but every now and then, I don't think it's a bad thing.

If you were to talk to somebody from Georgia you would understand what he's saying, he wouldn't sound like your next-door neighbor in Montana, but other than that it's the same language, just with a few little different nuances. That's just like country and blues, or blues and rock 'n' roll. They're the same music with different accents.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

There are numerous different kinds of drum sounds - some are more ambient and roomy and this, that, and the other, the John Bonham kind of thing. Then there's kinda what I did with Pantera, which was much more attacky, and then with what I did for 'Blood For Blood' on the Hellyeah record is kind of a combination of all of that.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Así, lo verdaderamente asomboso es la continuidad de nuestra idea del amor, no sus cambios y variaciones... La pasión que los exalta o devora es la misma.

The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences

los que dicen que las personas son creadas de dos en dos se equivocan. Nadie se parece a nadie.

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.

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

Long-range weather forecast: It's gonna get real hot, then it's gonna get real cold, then it's gonna get real hot again.

One man's quiet is another man's din.

Growth is impossible if we continue to do things the same way

Restatement is like marching in place. It does not have forward movement, but it is part of the parade. It is saying the same thing in different words.

Mixing up your genotype with someone else's, possibly breaking up some bad genetic combinations that had been riding around in you, perhaps discovering new good combinations, and giving your offspring a chance at being a better fit in a landscape that has not yet occurred—these are the benefits of sexual reproduction.

It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie. "It does?" Stephanie doubted it. "Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not in quite the same way as you, but that's sort of the point. The curse - if you will - it happens to everyone, but not to any two people in the same way. And no one likes it, no matter who's waiting inside.

Nature isn't benign," Lederberg said at the meeting's opening. "The bottom lines: the units of natural selection—DNA, sometimes RNA elements—are by no means neatly packaged in discrete organisms. They all share the entire biosphere. The survival of the human species is not a preordained evolutionary program. Abundant sources of genetic variation exist for viruses to learn new tricks, not necessarily confined to what happens routinely, or even frequently.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.