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“Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught a long time ago, company performance often results more from variations in systems than from the individuals doing the work.”

“Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”

Men Humans Life Is Born Movement Wounds Clock Human Life Repeats Tunes Pessimism Insignificant Variation

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.”

Moments Mystery Exercise Music Is Ancient Theme Variation True Nature

Author:Pierre Schaeffer

“I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.”

Looks Eye Remember Found Situation Chess Opening Girlfriend Variation Naps

Author:Pal Benko

“In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.”

Interesting Opinion Chess Opening Variation

Author:Bent Larsen

“Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?”

Trying Doe Book Play Fighting Black Views Player Advice Strange Ordinary Clubs Point Of View Chess Opening Copies Variation

Author:Bent Larsen

“First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.”

Firsts Ideas Lost Practice Study Player Tree Essentials Essence Woods Chess Variation Strategic Fashionable Orientation Tactical

Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.”

Years Ideas Games My Own Practice Gone Study Player Plans Position Return Chess New Ideas Glances Variation

Author:Efim Geller

“Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.”

Humans Ends Beautiful Natural Subjects Periods Gay Normal Argument Angry Discussion Being Human Immoral Offended Variation Unnatural Being Gay Outraged Undeserving

Author:Larry Kramer

“If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.”

Ifs Ends Beautiful Player Talent Movement Football Artistic Variation Facets Orchestration

Author:Bill Walsh

“Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!”

Ifs Play Strong Ready Strategy Chess Opponents Novelty Variation

Author:Edmar Mednis

“Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.”

Firsts Play Moving Study Rich Strategy Chess Opening Variation Nuance

Author:Efim Geller

“The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.”

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

Sometimes Seems Form Ought Variation Pondering

Author:Johannes Brahms

“I don’t work as a conceptualist. Let’s say the conceptual art model is that you have a project idea, or a set of concerns, and then you illustrate those concerns in whatever manner you see appropriate. For me, it has always been that the world suggests far more subtle and interesting variations than I could ever come up with.”

World Art Ideas Interesting Projects Models Concern Come Up Appropriate Subtle Variation Conceptual Art

Author:John Gossage

“Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.”

Knows Needs Mind Heart May Character Heart And Mind Variation Composites

Author:David Corbett

“The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.”

Firsts Facts Dream Form Lying Emotion Situation Accepting Millions Fantasy Objects Expression Highest Guilt Surprise Liberation Atmosphere Expansion Variation Facets Potency

Author:Anais Nin

“I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!”

Different School Periods High School Variation Afros Dreadlocks

Author:Tim Meadows

“There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.”

Way Giving Book Speak Natural Missing Pages Direct Notes Score Volume Parallels Variation Our Words Music Practice

Author:Howard Snell

“The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.”

Age Form Political Purpose Causes Dark Products Medical Contrary Labels Therapy Justify Fraud Variation Procedures Effectiveness Reducing Heresy Dark Ages Molecules Fallacy Vitamins Specs

Author:Ernst T. Krebs

“Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.”

Two Shows Three Theory Chess Opening Show Me Variation Defective

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.”

Said Common Theory Chess Common Sense Variation

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.”

Thinking Way Time Games Trouble Position Standards Chess Opponents Variation

Author:Alexander Kotov

“If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.”

Ifs Writing Play Moving Time Games Rate Calm Chess Opponents Repeats Examination Variation Neat Methodical

Author:Alexander Kotov

“I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'”

Ifs Form Pieces Materials Revolution Structure Musical Length Concrete Variation Metrics Gmos

Author:Brian Ferneyhough

“The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it”

I Can Popularity Variation Mama

Author:Niccolo Paganini

“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.”

Whole Found Nature Travel Plant Fruit Branches Delightful Variation

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account.”

Science Taken Depends Accounts Currents Doctrine Chiefs Electric Variation Displacement Electric Current

Book:A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Source: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

“Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.”

May Taste Cooking Delight Theme Composer Variation

Author:Fernand Point

“Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.”

People Thinking Humans Philosophy Intuition Capture Traffic Abstraction Variation Incompetent Generalization Refining

Author:Kenny Smith

“Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.”

Men Difficult Animal Results Serious Development Drug Species Various Obstacles Experiments Cruelty Variation Experimentation Therapeutic Animal Cruelty Metabolism

Author:Bernard Brodie

“How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.”

Ifs Men Stills Country Able Lost Sound Cities Wall Summer Sight Winter Smell Gray Spells Midnight Variation Noon Nuance Cement Monotony Pavement Odor Windy

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.”

Millions Shapes Originals Variation Silhouettes

Author:Charles James

“My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.”

“Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.”

People Ifs World Believe Different Jesus Christ Principles Millions Jesus Christ Logic Be Good Accepted Relate Variation If There Is A God

Author:Timothy Keller

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”

Light Certain Process Awareness Sorrow Shadow Satisfaction Rhythm Contrast Variation Richness Captured Discontent Light And Shadow

Author:Louis Bromfield

“An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.”

Ifs Firsts Ideas Numbers Heard Havens Example Amount First Time Rounds Opera Listeners Repetition Variation Small Numbers Aria Handel

Author:James Fenton

“And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.”

Sometimes Age Language Common Tree Ordinary Metaphor Excellent Phrases Colour Variation Quaint

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.”

Knows Essence Variation Biologist

Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.”

Firsts Art Stills Given Chance Numbers Four Painting Pops Chosen Defined Related Tone Colour Proportion Arbitrary Variation Sample Pop Art

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.”

People Different America Names Interesting Struggle Different Things Call Me Different Peoples Variation Really Interesting Nicknames

Author:Sharlto Copley

“Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.”

Ends Certain Waiting Successful Pieces Sections Variation

Author:Emanuel Ax

“I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.”

Want Kind Done Play Character Turns Actors Left Acting Careers Wide Endless All Kinds Range Awake Variation

Author:Tim Curry

“Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.”

World Design Innovation Financial Invention Versions Finance Operations Wheels Exception Variation Skeptical Unstable Hail

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.”

“The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.”

Country Stories Sea Offers Incredibles Myth Survivor Fortitude Variation

Author:Colin Farrell

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

Responsible Attributes Genes Interaction Variation Vigor

Author:Walter Gilbert

“Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.”

Becoming Climate Spread Convinced Asian Variation Mammals Geologist

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.”

Found Willing Products Albums Video Consumers Combination Variation Bundles Premium Packaging

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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