Quotes About Variability

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

Normal is a piece of string. What's normal for one person is off the chart for another.

The wild vicissitudes of taste.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

One man's fish is another man's poisson.

We all have different needs for food, vitamins, rest, exercise, stress tolerance, or ability to handle toxins.

She is the best of them all," he said to himself, as he refolded the letter and put it back into his desk. I am not sure that it is well that a man should have any large number from whom to select a best; as, in such circumstances, he is so very apt to change his judgment from hour to hour.

and had come to regard the unevenness of her life, vacillating between knocks and knick-knacks, with a blow one day and a jewel the next, as the condition of things which was natural to her.

The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature.

Act'. How many good people do you really know? I discount those who mouth out platitudes for the edification of the young, and who truly are 'good', whatever that means? What a strange subject, and from such a strange person!Everyone I know is a mixture, some with more good than bad, and it varies on different days

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

When people are depressed they tend to believe they are depressed all the time. Mindful attention to variability shows this is not the case,

Mindfulness involves two key strategies for improving health: attention to context and attention to variability.

Any plan is bad which is not susceptible of change.

I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.