Quotes About Variability

Every guy is a little different, how you talk to him, how you handle him and hold him accountable, every guy is a little different.

Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast.

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

Every reading is different as far as timing, so some will last a half hour and others will last three hours.

Tattooing was unto itself its very own art form, old as the hills and stranger than time. Whether in rich, far-flung resorts or condemned cottages, glamorous prestige or ragged poverty, human hearts and souls were variable and would always require painting.

That's me. Exist in the swing. Never still, never one thing or the other, always moving from one extreme to the furthest reaches of the other.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Freakishness could happen to anyone at any time.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same

I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Non è bello che tutti si debba pensare allo stesso modo, è la differenza di opinioni quella che rende possibili le corse dei cavalli.

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

Sometimes. And sometimes not.

Variety is the spice of love.

Moral life, it can be said, is just too messy, and the situations we encounter differ from each other in subtle ways that no panoply of principles could ever manage to capture. Principles deal in samenesses, and there just aren't enough samenesses to go around. (page 2)

If you take home one souvenir from this part of the tour, may I suggest that it be a suspicion of moral monists. Beware of anyone who insists that there is one true morality for all people, times, and places—particularly if that morality is founded upon a single moral foundation. Human societies are complex; their needs and challenges are variable.

Your face is never the same twice,' Jakob had said. 'Er—that's a compliment!' he added hastily, when Kitty glowered at him.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

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