Quotes About Variability

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

Don't get married to the idea of something having to be one way.

The good thing about films is, you never know how good they will be. If there was a formula, there would only be good films!

Strategy #3: Asking about the situational variability of the unsolved problem; in other words, why is the child meeting the expectation sometimes and not other times?

The most important thing I have to say is that you should not take too literally what is said in this book. Every child is different, every parent is different, every illness or behavior problem is somewhat different from every other. All I can do is describe the most common developments and problems in the most general terms. Remember that you are more familiar with your child's temperament and patterns than I could ever be.

You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

Life has very little even ground.

Each one of us in America could have grown up someone else had the universe's mysterious finger touched a different key.

Our only security is our ability to change.

Other lives are more unpredictable. No matter how haphazard your day might seem, I guarantee that you already have many routines that occur consistently enough to be used as an Anchor.

When faced with exceptional circumstances, people react differently.

Fashion is guaranteed to never always be right.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.