Quotes About Variability

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

I pass from state to state. I am warm or cold, I am merry or sad, I work or I do nothing, I look at what is around me or I think of something else. Sensations, feelings, volitions, ideas -- such are the changes into which my existence is divided and which color it in turns. I change, then, without ceasing.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

il ne faut chercher que la vérité, sans s'occuper de la morale enseignée, orthodoxe et officielle ; de la morale, cette prétendue loi naturelle, indéfiniment variable, facultative, cette chose dosée différemment pour chaque pays, appréciée de façon nouvelle par chaque expert, prêtre ou législateur, et sans cesse modifiée par tout le monde.

All bodies can't be same, my body will react differently tours.

125.00% Mean     149.17% Standard Deviation     43.47%

nature as chameleon

Good and ill are one." "To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right." "The way up and the way down is one and the same." "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each.

It is impossible to know what people will like. No market research, formulas will help, it's best to stop guessing.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

I've since come to realize how widely the aging process varies.

Flexibility in our lives means having a fundamental ability to relate to any new environment and excel in it.

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.

fifty-fifty. Sometimes they are sixty-forty, sometimes eighty-twenty. You'll be the eighty sometimes, you'll be the twenty others. The key is to accept and be okay with that.

When he's hot, he's hot; when he's not, he's not. But at least there is always food

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.