Quotes About Variability

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

the one consistent thing I have found is that there really is no normal when it comes to women.

Unlike machines, human can be unpredictable.

Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.

Even Karenin, who might well have turned out to be a flat caricature with his stick-out ears and cracking knuckles, is endowed with a complex personality as the other characters see him differently on different occasions: when Anna sees him at the Petersburg station, when he is at his government desk, when his son recoils from his embrace, when he is at the interview with his divorce lawyer, when

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

There can be no true definition of normal because life is ever-changing.

Nothing works all the time

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

Training-wise, I don't have an extreme plan I stick to. I know what I have to do, I know the goal. But it's not really structured. That's the beauty of road cycling. It all depends on the conditions on the day and where you are in the world.

And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the time.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

no one should assume the demon will manifest the same way each time.

A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one

Each arrow flies differently. You can shoot a thousand arrows and each one will follow a different trajectory: that is the way of the bow.