Quotes of Variation - somelinesforyou

“ And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. ”

- Robert Burns

“ The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged. ”

- William Cowper

“ If we cannot end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment and surprise. ”

- Christine Downing

“ It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do. ”

- Michael Bloomberg

“ What they're doing is not the least bit subtle. The result of all the innovation will be bankruptcy for Netscape. ”

- Larry Ellison

“ What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit. ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. ”

- Hyman G. Rickover

“ The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature. ”

- Virgil

“ The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. ”

- Robert Iger

“ Innovations never happen as planned. ”

- Gifford Pinchot

“ The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Happiness ain't a thing in itself — it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them; — one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; — he steps forth like a bridegroom, — bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ I hope we don't have a Great Society mind-set because of this disaster,... Is this a tidal shift? Is this one of those times when government shifts back to a more interventional, more hands-on approach and away from laissez-faire? ”

- Bill Owens

“ A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ 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

“ There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come! ”

- General Peter Muhlenberg

“ There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. ”

- Coco Chanel

“ Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. ”

- Unknown

“ Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. ”

- George Santayana

“ As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Innovators are inevitably controversial. ”

- Eva Le Gallienne

“ The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ”

- Aristotle

“ If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“ Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation. ”

- Peter Drucker
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