Quotes About Variability

Everything is subjective, right? A question that's easy for you is hard for somebody else, and vice versa.

It means, "the melody changes, but the song remains the same," but directly translated it's: "the players change, but the music is always the same.

While you may be able to say with precision what the average man will do, "you can never foretell what any one man will do.

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.

Not every soil can bear all things.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

It is the greatest mistake," he said, "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. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.

That's the amazing thing about our jobs; it's constantly changing, and it's extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.

No one can be their best every night.

Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself.

wherever there is judgment, there is noise—and more of it than you think.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

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 meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.

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.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

It's a roller-coaster league, man.

You can have a couple of games where you play bad or very good. I think I'm a type of player that days before I know how I feel, if I'm playing good, if I'm playing bad. This is not like lottery here.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

without variability, we cannot innovate. Product development produces the recipes for products, not the products themselves. If a design does not change, there can be no value-added. But, when we change a design, we introduce uncertainty and variability in outcomes. We cannot eliminate all variability without eliminating all value-added.