Quotes About Variation

A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

You can't have a movie that's just 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom' constantly - you have to breathe.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

No obstante, e independientemente de las variaciones posibles, lo que define un tipo específico de mente es el estilo cognitivo o el modo/tendencia relativamente estable de procesar la información de una manera específica.

Creativity is making something different using the same thing."

Madness is always having the same result doing something different.

There are no differences without comparisons."

regression to the mean has an explanation but does not have a cause.

Bias and noise—systematic deviation and random scatter—are different components of error.

In terms of noise, psychiatry is an extreme case.

the following two statements mean exactly the same thing: Large samples are more precise than small samples. Small samples yield extreme results more often than large samples do.

whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.

From the perspective of noise reduction, a singular decision is a recurrent decision that happens only once.

chance variation in a small number of early movers" can have major effects in tipping large populations

The comparison of firms that have been more or less successful is to a significant extent a comparison between firms that have been more or less lucky.

counties are different from other counties for a reason, that there must be a cause that explains this difference. As we shall see, however