Quotes About Variety

If a system is to deal successfully with the diversity of challenges its environment produces, then it needs to have a repertoire of responses (at least) as nuanced as the problems thrown up by the environment. So a viable system is one that can handle the variability of its environment. Or, as Ashby put it, only variety can absorb variety.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

My final two cents worth of advice is to develop an all-consuming curiosity for things both exotic and ordinary. Read, observe, analyze, and become involved with a variety of interests. Study, practice, delve, probe, investigate, and above all, be flexible. Keep an open mind. The world is changing fast. Don't get caught in the corner of the ring. - Ward Kimball

And now for something completely different . . .

You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers, interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.

I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.

Everybody's different and every person is different and every actor's different and everybody has different wants and needs, but I'm a kid who loved comic books my whole life.

What is life without incompatible realities?

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Customers have different need states and life experiences.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.