Variation Quotes

• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Enemy, Quality

  "Basic Statistical Tools for Improving Quality". Book by Chang W. Kang, Paul H. Kvam, p. 19, 2012.

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• Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Keys, Understanding, Quality

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• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fitness, Perseverance, Exercise

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• Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

  Robert Hass

  Repetition, Feels, Secure

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

  Mason Cooley

  Cheer, Upset, Three

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• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

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• Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Promise, Tongue

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• The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

  Isaac Asimov

  Law, Errors, Doe

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Originality is only variation.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Originality

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

  William Saroyan

  Men, Remember, Every Man

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

  Alexander Kotov

  Tree, Analysis, Branches

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• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Branches

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• I'm very interested in variations.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Hair, Theory Of Evolution

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  Walter Gilbert

  Vigor, Responsible, Genes

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Males, Female, Range

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• I like repetition, but I really, really like variations, synchronistic things that happen where you're not really thinking about them.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Thinking, Repetition, Happens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Loneliness, Play, Symphony

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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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

  Ernst Mayr

  Evolution, Process, Certain

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.457, Harvard University Press

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• Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

  Richard Owen

  Degrees, Kind, Judgment

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• I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

  Johannes Brahms

  Sometimes, Form, Pondering

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• When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, World, Way

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