Quotes About Fluctuation

Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and dear years to diminish it.

But the value of silver, though it sometimes varies greatly from century to century, seldom varies much from year to year, but frequently continues the same, or very nearly the same, for half a century or a century together.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

Everything's changing," I say, sighing.

Constancy is nothing but a languishing and wavering dance

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

What's so great about my business is that every day is different than the day prior.

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.

If exporters are looking at various factors which influence the performance, the fluctuating rupee will certainly be a factor.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Then it dropped 400 points on a single trade.

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.

The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.

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.

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

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

Alice replied, rather shyly, I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I— I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

Yo, señor, en realidad no sé quién soy en este momento, aunque esta mañana lo sabía muy bien cuando me levanté, ¡pero he cambiado tantas veces desde entonces!

I ca'n't remember things as I used- and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!