Quotes About Variability

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle; the rest is subject to change without notice.

Some of these terms had startlingly wide ranges, which I imagine you experienced in your four-person survey. For instance, "real possibility" had a range of about 20% to 80%. A quarter of the people taking the survey thought the term meant 40% of the time or less. A quarter thought it meant 40% to 60%. A quarter thought it meant 60% to 75%. Finally, a quarter thought it meant over 75% of the time.

In addition to making precise (bull's-eye) estimates, offer a range around that estimate to express your uncertainty. Do this by including a lower and upper bound that communicate the size of your target.

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

Different refs judge fights differently.

As we've got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we've had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

With the 200m free it just changes all the time whoever is at the top.

My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Even in a given territory what would work in one city in front of one crowd might not work in front of another crowd. Every crowd is different in what they are looking for and what they'll respond to.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Carried about with every wind of doctrine.

We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.

Flexibility isn't a bad thing.