Quotes About Variability

No two people react to things the same way, and even the same person reacts differently at a different time.

When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

Sometimes I look handsome, and sometimes I look ugly.

Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have two completely contrasting experiences from it.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

On any given day of Apert I could have written an entire book about what I was thinking and feeling, and it would have been completely different from the previous day's book.

He's a chameleon. Whatever is in, he wants to do that. He never really stuck to what made him what he was, which was rock and roll. If hip-hop is in, he's a hip-hopper. If punk is in, he's a punk rocker. If Tommy had fucking tits, he'd be a Spice Girl.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

I'm a chameleon. When you put me in certain soils, musically speaking, I will be in that place.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Whether round-ear, pointed-ear, horned, or short, two-legs seemed addicted to dithering.

In fact, a lack of randomness denotes an abysmal spirit.

The mass communication universe is full of these discordant interpretations; I would say that variability of interpretation is the constant law of mass communications.

Flat ubi vult

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

How do you gauge normal? To do so, you'd have to know how everybody else lives.

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.