Quotes About Variability

Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

change is not the exception but the rule.

No matter how many determinants of health we throw in the mix, we will never be able to perfectly predict who will experience good health.

We know very little about the universe. I personally don't believe it's uniform and the same everywhere. That's like saying the earth is flat.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

We just do not know what is normal.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.

We carry our fresh air with us, wherever we go. He who has it, has it anywhere—nothing can rob him of it. I find in all characters that live close to nature, capriciousness, variability—they seem to pattern after nature's higher rules. The children are that way, and dogs, cats—not but that their perceptions, intuitions, are keen enough, but with the capricious, too.

It was an aigrette, or plume, composed of two feathers of a vulture, fastened together by an opal, which with the changing light changed with a variability which enchanted the Swiss damsel who had never seen anything resembling it in her life.

we almost always make the implicit assumption that everybody else thinks and ex-periences about the same way as we do, with the exception of "crazy" people.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three per day, but that is not a good way to live.

This place changes its weather more often than I change my shirt.

we are all distinct—what will work for one person may not work for another; this variation between individuals is perhaps the most fundamental of evolutionary observations.

Quantum mechanics has to be expanded, to allow for many different descriptions, depending on who the observer is.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.