Quotes by Variables In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. Adrian Grenier variablesluxuryreality One man's constant is another man's variable. Alan Perlis variablesconstantmen There is no such thing as a free variable. Alan Perlis variables Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. Ambrose Bierce variablesconvictionsometimes To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. B. F. Skinner variablesdifferentway The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot. Bill Drayton variablesbecominggiving The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat. Bill Gates variablesweatherkids I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable. Bill Parcells variablesteamtalking I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it. Bill Parcells variablesproblemlooks The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables... Brad Furman castingvariablescomplicated I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ Brian H. Hook variablesnamescommon As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills variablesatheismworld The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren variablesspeechliterature Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables. Carl Icahn variableslevelsbelieve There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which. Carleton Young variablesdestinyover-you In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco. Charlie Munger variablesinvestingwinning Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over. Chris Abani variablesoppressionlong There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. Chuck Palahniuk variablesdoewatches Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you. David Livermore variablesother-culturesimportant Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. Douglas Horton variablesimperfectbeauty12345»
