#variation

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. ↗

— James A. Michener

#concern #crucial #does #else #except

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#concern #main #main concern #matter #minor

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

— Robin Wright Penn

#always #bland #choices #enough #every

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#music #real #real world #related #see

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#films #gotten #line #out #story

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

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. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#end #entire #even #family #had

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aware #believe #even #every #golden