Top 100 Quotes About Parameters
#1. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin
#2. EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS ...
Clyde DeSouza
#3. Sometimes the things we loose sleep over are the parameters we set for ourselves, not the ones that God has set for us.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#4. Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.
Brian Wilson
#5. There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".
Stanislaw Ulam
#6. Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.
Jeff Koons
#7. My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Bram Cohen
#8. Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
Philippe Starck
#9. I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
Terri Mitchell
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
Luc Ferrari
#11. Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.
Chelsea Handler
#12. I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.
Philippe Starck
#13. Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
Mike Leigh
#14. The Bible tells us clearly what our parameters are and how to protect them, but often our family, or other past relationships, confuses us about our parameters.
Henry Cloud
#15. There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Lamar Alexander
#16. The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
Ehud Olmert
#17. We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
John Mica
#18. I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
Dominic Monaghan
#19. You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#20. The soul is a cloister, its parameters frame both realized and failed dreams.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#21. What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J.G. Ballard
#22. I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
Andy Garcia
#23. On a waiter's check pad," said Slartibartfast, "reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible, within certain parameters.
Douglas Adams
#24. I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
Jeff Koons
#25. But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that's over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn't free at all. So screw that.
Mark Steyn
#26. In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
Chris Avellone
#27. Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#28. A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.
Stephen Baxter
#29. Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.
David Allen
#30. By comparing the confidence intervals of different means (or other parameters) we can get some idea about whether the means came from the same or different populations. FIGURE
Andy Field
#31. My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
Narendra Modi
#32. I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.
Steve Maraboli
#33. Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient.
Ron Lewis
#34. Every time you make creative, interactive, and harmonious jazz with your Redeemer, whether in your home, friendships, community, church, or at work, while staying inside of his parameters, you are expanding what you touch to the size of God's kingdom.
Paul David Tripp
#35. I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy
Manuel Pellegrini
#36. Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.
John P. Kotter
#37. True friendship has no boundaries. No parameters. And certainly has no conditions.
Maya Banks
#38. Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.
Anthony Giddens
#39. Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#40. What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.
Steve Maraboli
#41. A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
Bruce Tulgan
#42. I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.
Nicholas Sparks
#43. Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your energy.
Steve Maraboli
#44. Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.
Robin Williams
#45. The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.
Jeff Cooper
#46. Mind is designed mainly to seek within its own parameters of knowing in self-interest.
Gian Kumar
#47. But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.
John Crowley
#48. Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.
Randy Alcorn
#49. The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.
Paul Di Filippo
#50. As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.
Kristin Armstrong
#51. I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
Sting
#52. Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
Theodore Sturgeon
#53. Consciousness is the process of creating a model of the world using multiple feedback loops in various parameters (e.g., in temperature, space, time, and in relation to others), in order to accomplish a goal (e.g., find mates, food, shelter). I call this the "space-time theory of consciousness,
Michio Kaku
#54. Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.
Paul Russo
#55. You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it ... and you hope for a better day for the next generation.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#57. I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.
James Carville
#58. Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.
Mark Rippetoe
#59. The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#60. It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
Neil Gaiman
#61. Reality was a makeshift prop, an amalgamation of agreed-upon conjecture, a consensus of self-limiting parameters and paradigms made palatable by endless speculation fueled by madness and hope and no mean amount of good dope.
Laird Barron
#62. If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan Perlis
#64. Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.
Rolf Potts
#65. Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.
Dana Spiotta
#66. I've never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let's widen the parameters a bit
Robert Breeze
#67. Glass had come to view the sea, which he once embraced as synonymous with freedom, as no more than the confining parameters of small ships. He resolved to turn a new direction.
Michael Punke
#68. The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#69. Parametric equations express the coordinates of the points of a curve as functions of a variable, called a parameter. They make it easy to draw curves because you can just plug parameters into equations to produce a curve.
Mahesh Venkitachalam
#70. We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry Page
#71. While everyone was screaming in italics, the babies themselves seem to have done just fine. Despite their inability to do almost anything on their own, infants are far more flexible than they get credit for: within a few obvious parameters - food, shelter, love - they are astonishingly adaptive.
Nicholas Day
#72. I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
Enrico Fermi
#73. I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.
Justin Broadrick
#74. But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
Jim Coleman
#75. All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
Chris Hillman
#76. After all,'I've been thinking' meant she had previously identified the parameters and analyzed all the branching considerations.
G.S. Jennsen
#77. There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'
Ezekiel Emanuel
#78. Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When you're creating a song, there should never be any parameters, so being high is okay because your mind can wander all over the place.
Steve "Lips" Kudlow
#80. You don't get to legislate the parameters of my confidence. I get to feel good about myself because I am a person; my size has nothing to do with it. IN
Brittany Gibbons
#81. When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.
Chuck Klosterman
#82. My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
Darin Strauss
#83. I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult
#84. I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.
Pope Francis
#85. Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
Eliot Spitzer
#86. We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.
John Cameron
#87. Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.
Narendra Modi
#88. I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters-height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author's nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them. Then I put them back the way they were.
Joe Queenan
#89. I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters
David Sedaris
#90. I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?' and I wish there was an answer, because there's no ladder. There are no parameters. You've just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder.
Terry Wogan
#91. There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
Jason Blum
#92. With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.
David Jeremiah
#93. I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.
Cyril Wong
#94. Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
Chuck Close
#95. The success of the therapy relies on three main factors: the appropriate selection of patients, the accurate placement of the DBS lead in the sensorimotor regions of the target nuclei, and optimal choice of electrical parameters for stimulation.
William J. Marks Jr.
#96. You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
Ice Cube
#97. Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.
Jeremy Irons
#98. The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
Shepard Fairey
#99. All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Andrew Bird
#100. A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters
Julio Cortazar
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