Quotes About Variability

The anthropologist who asserts absolute confidence in the sex, age, stature and ancestry of a skeleton is a dangerous and inexperienced scientist who doesn't understand human variability.

811. Focus on the here and now, forget yesterday's behavior, and don't predict tomorrow's. Every day with ADHD is different from the next.

Social media is something I approach organically. It's all me! Sometimes I'll post four things in a few hours, but then I could go dark for a week.

At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different habitats or situations.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

Les hommes, quelque beau visage que fortune leur fasse, ne se peuvent appeler heureux jusqu'à ce qu'on leur ai vu passer le dernier jour de leur vie, à cause de l'incertitude et de la variabilité des choses humaines qui d'un bien léger mouvement se changent d'un état en un autre tout divers

Something must happen to 'stir up their heredities,' as I am fond of saying—to excite in them the variability that normally lies dormant," Burbank later explained

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

In the financial world, risk translates to uncertainty. It's measured by "standard deviation from the norm" -- in other words, it's measured by how much the returns swing up and down. Says King, "Most individuals measure risk as their chance of loss, but we measure risk by the variability of returns.

Now I am not one of the most constant creatures alive myself, and am apt to run through the spectrum which has the blues at the bottom about once a week.

There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.

The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology

Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.

doing the same thing twice will not predictably or necessarily lead to the same result. It is this characteristic that makes static checklists and best practices, while valuable, insufficient to prevent catastrophes from occurring. See

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

I'm zero to a hundred in almost every facet of my life.

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful, it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good, it's still all right.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.