Quotes About Variability

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

I can be a totally different person from one day to the next, so it is difficult for me to stay in one role over a prolonged period.

I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada.

I guess different brains work in different ways.

Everybody reacts to very difficult circumstances differently, we have to accept that.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for real.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.

Autumn nights are the most fickle: good and bad weather All in five days, and more than that in a month.

Make it all a little unpredictable. How about

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

true randomness sometimes produces repetition

The answer lies in a phenomenon called 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.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Things are always different from what they might be.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

It has its ups and downs!

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!