Quotes About Variation

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.

Each action contains its opposite. Each action contains the shadow-trace of the choice not made, the seeds of infinite variation. Each choice, once made, trips contingencies, alternatives; each choice breeds its own universe.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left

Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.

Nothing is forever except change.

consistent—like plain chocolate bars, the same all the way through. Those quizzes assumed that if people were brave in one situation, they'd be brave in another, but Sugar didn't think this was true. Or maybe it was just her. Maybe this was

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

When environment changes, there must be a corresponding change in life.

In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.

We're all different.

On top of the highly variable necessary attributes to perform in each sport, human beings are like snowflakes; no two are alike.

More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.

I think what pace bowlers need to do in T20 cricket is not just run up and bowl fast. It's not about brute pace in T20, it's about the variation.

Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but it's just Australian Bill Cosby; or that's just British Bill Cosby; that's Pirate Bill Cosby.

In fact, humans have less variation genetically than chimpanzees.

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

I think the future of lunar bases has to be somewhere around the South or North Pole. You have less variation in temperature and more daylight hours.

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

I think maybe I might have to do what some other authors do, which is do a variation on my name, just to send readers the message that, 'Yep, this is me, but this is a different part of me. So brace yourself.'

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.