Quotes about Variety

4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

Everyone needs a change of mental environment at regular periods, the same as a change and variety of food are essential. The mind becomes more alert, more elastic and more ready to work with speed and accuracy after it has been bathed in new ideas, outside of one's own field of daily labor.

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.

I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I don't wear anything more than once most of the time. I try not to wear the same thing twice. I have too many clothes to wear the same thing twice.