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Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business. — W. Edwards Deming

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation ... — Seneca The Younger

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male. — Alfred Kinsey

(my whole life a holding pattern, some variation on wait and see) — Katie Cotugno

Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart

Thank you Mr. Carroll. You will have to excuse my cousin; he seems to have lost his mind along with his manners. — KaraLynne Mackrory

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. — Claudia Gray

It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there. — Natasha Pulley

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

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner

Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations. — Neal A. Maxwell

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme. — John Szarkowski

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

They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun. — Sherilyn Fenn

Scientists say that somewhere in the universe, every event under the sun repeats itself an infinite number of times in every possible variation. — Romina Russell

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free. — Robert Hass

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

Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at — J.K. Rowling

Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. — Richard Dawkins

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary. — Harold Jeffreys

Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance. — Thomas Pynchon

His brothers were the type; he was the variation. — Henry Adams

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg

Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently. — Augustine Of Hippo

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. — Leonid Shamkovich

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. — Khaled Hosseini

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

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready! — Edmar Mednis

There's more variation among human groups than between human groups. — Gloria Steinem

Given that dogs and wolves are virtually indistinguishable genetically, the enormous variation in body size and shape in the dog is truly remarkable. — Paul McGreevy

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. — Savielly Tartakower

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes. — Mary Hunter Austin

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation — Lillian Hellman

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain. — Mary McCarthy

Everything anyone has ever felt
is a variation of 'sad' or 'happy' or 'angry'
everyone feels the same things over and over again — Mira Gonzalez

In the end, he relented as her look of determination reminded him a bit of an angry cat trying to be a tiger. — KaraLynne Mackrory

In skating there's always another jump or another spin variation or another thing to learn, and that's what I liked about it. — Gracie Gold

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half — Jan Timman

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss. — W. Edwards Deming

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping. — Stef Penney

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself — William, Saroyan

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past. — Carlos Fuentes

Then kindly recall that variation is not the same as deformity. — Laline Paull

Beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. — Ian McEwan

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes
only a million variations. — Charles James

Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes
that would be another very nice way for people to look. — Kurt Vonnegut

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation. — Augustine Of Hippo

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

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

We must understand variation. — W. Edwards Deming

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members. — Carolyn Hax

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits; ... — David Ricardo

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. — Charles Duke

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants' — Bruce Springsteen

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

See, heaven and earth exist, they cry aloud that they are made, for they suffer change and variation. — Augustine Of Hippo

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! — Mason Cooley

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality. — W. Edwards Deming

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon ... — John A. Keel

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. — Bent Larsen

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis

Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. — Abhijit Naskar

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. — Debra Winger

The struggle for subjectivity is a battle to win the right to have access to difference, variation and metamorphosis. — Charles J. Stivale

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

Each new thing seems terrible because it is new, because it is a variation. But at the heart it is all the same ultimately. — A.N. Roquelaure

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. — Mikhail Botvinnik

She crossed her arms across her chest, and for a moment, Richard thought she looked a lot like her brother, only more like an adorable, angry kitten. — KaraLynne Mackrory

I had always been appalled by the variation of the gospel of prosperity — Sunday Adelaja

It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence ... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive. — Christopher Krovatin

She'd probably slap me upside the head and say some variation of 'Hey, Future Clare, wtf? — Kim Harrington

Water Source and earthbound substance in endless theme and variation. There is need of rest, renewal and appreciation of the ever-changing landscape. — Lynne Hurd Bryant

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