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“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”

“If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.”

“Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.”

Whole Purpose Existence Imagine Design Evolution Higher Intelligent Imagine That Variation Intelligent Design Higher Purpose

Author:James K. Galbraith

“There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.”

Book Different Used Audience Source Kings Speech Significant Statements Ministers Phrases Speakers Multiple Essays Variation

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes”

Self Motivation Belief Levels Quality Produce Standards Performances Expected Factors Outcomes Controlled Tied Minimum Variation Efficacy Self Efficacy Above And Below

Author:Albert Bandura

“Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.”

Thinking Writing Pieces Subjects Dying Getting Old Variation Fear Of Dying

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.”

Interesting Essentials Notes Incredibles Exposed Variation Brahms Handel Paganini

Author:Carlo Grante

“That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.”

“I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Play Girl Actors Drama Six Variation Corsets

Author:Lena Dunham

“After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.”

Enough Choices Interesting Kicks Variation Bland

Author:Robin Wright

“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.”

“I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.”

Has Beens Done Film Pieces Demand Relief Concerts Instruction Composer Frustrated Restriction Variation Small Parts

Author:John Towner Williams

“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.”

Lying Found Discovery Essence Satisfaction Endless Familiar Boredom Theme Subtle Repetition Novelty Variation Richness Obsessive

Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“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.”

Wells Sky Land Wind Habit Deny Native Permit Traits Variation

Author:Virgil

“Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.”

Wells Different Done Bigs Guy Voice Walks Talking Suits Standing Out Variation Englishmen Nuance Specialists Clusters

Author:Colin Firth

“I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.”

Thinking Feels Different Jobs Actors Talking Variation

Author:Eric Bana

“The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.”

Ifs Matter Song Rooms Attitude Personality No Matter What Tone Pushing What If Vocal Variation Dynamics

Author:Mike Ness

“There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.”

Thinking World Needs Country Use Jobs Difficult Term Imagine Taxes Tools Agree Trade Wide Cards Around The World Proven Variation Caps Best Job Sweden Co2 Tax System

Author:Al Gore

“Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.”

Feels Secure Repetition Variation

Book:Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry

Source: Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry

“... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.”

Ifs Individual Strong Natural Chance Principles Struggle Produce Sake Preservation Selection Inheritance Variation Natural Selection Brevity

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959

“There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.”

Way Hands Brain Variation Palin Brain Power

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'”

Song Rocks Pants Variation Rock Song

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups.”

People World Mean Sometimes Whole Shows Together Purpose Groups Behavior Despite Latin Links Competing Variation Wilson Coordinates

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.”

Ifs Done Shows Artist Situation One Thing Sick Killing Jealous Variation Signatures Killing Yourself Killing Myself

Author:Jim Shaw

“Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.”

“Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.”

Men Sound Week Flower Months Ears Notes Patient Satisfied Opening Streams Length March Funeral Spheres Acceptable Variation

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a cliché. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young people in the townships on issues principally around HIV/AIDS, is that people are usually neither entirely good or bad. They are usually variations of both. Just because someone is a carjacker doesn't mean they are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Mean Stories Young Guy Turns Three Issues Cold Aids Three Years Murderer Bad Guys Variation Ruthless Hiv Good Guy Hiv Aids Cold Blooded

Author:Gavin Hood

“That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.”

“If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.”

Ifs Player Listening Hundred Scales Bars Substance Phrases Variation Montgomery

Author:Emily Remler

“In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.”

Thinking Has Beens Deals Seats Bombs Target Variation

Author:Menzies Campbell

“I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.”

Thinking Want Writing Doe Interesting Careers Fit Concern What You Want Crucial Variation

Author:James A. Michener

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

Mind Kind Two Ideas Film Process Directors Elements Approach Perfection Thrive Internals Filmmaking Harvest Defects Variation Hitchcock

Author:Walter Murch

“I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.”

Giving Trying Long Ideas Moving Games Strong Behinds Pieces Position Weakness Opening Opponents Scope Variation Pawns Cramps

Author:Bobby Fischer

“An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.”

World Play Emotion Technique Broke Feedback Variation Guitarist Chuck Berries Devotee Utilization

Author:Ted Nugent

“Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.”

World Matter Energy Creative Creation Hero Battle Eternal Myth Release Subtle Cosmic Variation Microcosm Creative Energy Creation Myths

Author:Dorothy Norman

“First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.”

Firsts Individual Groups Members Impression Mask Variation

Author:Carolyn Hax

“After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.”

Way Whole Facts Light Might Animal Subjects Example Return England Plant Following Thrown Bores Variation Collecting Geology

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.”

Past Three Variation Past Present And Future

Book:City of God

Source: City of God

“Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story.”

“I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.”

Thinking Art Culture Fashion Type Importance Hip Hop Artistic Hips Hops Variation Jewelry Tribute Adapted

Author:Simon de Pury

“I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I think it's all valid. I don't take it personally at this point, which I probably would have at Sundance. But it's really thrilling.”

People Thinking Different Interesting Audience Heard Different Peoples Thrilling Variation Sundance

Author:James Ponsoldt

“I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?'”

Thinking Want Years Looks Age Guy Stuff Periods Concern Bigger Yeah Evolve Comedian Theme Bullshit Variation Creepy

Author:Patton Oswalt

“It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.”

Ifs Made Used Process Impossible Improvement Ignored Shifting Variation Continuous Improvement

Author:Masaaki Imai

“What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.”

“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.”

Mind Past Existence Gone Thousand Flow Rivers Constant Depth Infinity Stable Variation Flux Chasms

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.”

Ifs Mind Turns Feet Ready Six Stronger Instruments Shoes Pairs Variation Pointe

Author:Nina Ananiashvili

“The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”

Form Stuff Foe Variation Unimportant

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”

Thinking Giving I Can Play Guy Movement Possibility Return Give Me Infinite Jazz Tunes Strings Fewer Thick Conventional Emphasis Chords Variation Infinite Possibilities

Author:Miles Davis

“I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.”

Years Being The Best Vegetarian Variation

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation.”

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