Quotes About Variability

Trends are trends. They come. They go. I just do what I do.

Let go of consistency, let go of certainty. Learn to live with the waves of change and uncertainty.

There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings, and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows."19

As James Lovelock notes . . . No one doubts that humans are in thermostasis, yet our core temperatures range from 35 to 40°C and our extremities from 5 to 45°C. This may appear imprecise, but it serves us well.9

The only way to reduce the variability in the estimate is to reduce the variability in the project.

I like interesting casting, and casting people who you think might be slightly different in parts.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him. -from By diverse means we arrive at the same end

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.

Every one of us is a hodge-podge, so shapeless and diverse in structure that each piece, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. I

conclusion that the love story of his life exemplified not "Es muss sein!" (It must be so), but rather "Es könnte auch anders sein" (It could just as well be otherwise).

Truth is a chameleon.

Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them.

My normal is craziness - moving around and jumping from team to team and having to get used to different guys in a short period of time.

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.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Just as the most successful industrial plants are adopting the concept of "agile manufacturing," so the most successful contract workers make themselves agile through developing multiple abilities.

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too. And the light came on.

About 90 percent of the past five hundred thousand years have been colder than today, and the world's climate has been in transition from cold to warm or back again for about three quarters of that time.

The infinite variety of the human condition precludes arbitrary definition.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

In his long years of life, Rancept had had occasion to reflect on the wondrous variability of love, as might anyone left standing on its periphery, too bent and battered to draw another's eye.