Top 100 Quotes About Variables
#1. I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
Bill Parcells
#2. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
Tim Ferriss
#3. To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
B.F. Skinner
#4. In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#7. Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#8. Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.
Martin J. Whitman
#9. Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
Carol Loomis
#10. Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.
John Locke
#11. Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#12. Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
Luc De Clapiers
#13. Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
Adam Savage
#14. A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.
Jean De La Bruyere
#15. The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.
Georg Cantor
#16. Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.
Saul Gorn
#17. Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Aberjhani
#18. There is no such thing as a free variable.
Alan Perlis
#19. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#20. Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#21. In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.
T.F. Hodge
#22. Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.
Jonathan Balcombe
#23. We're never gonna understand women. They're way too complex. You've got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings ... there's no way to tell what's causing their attitude.
- Mike
Susane Colasanti
#24. I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
Fuzzy Zoeller
#25. Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")
William S. Wilson
#26. For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.
James Fallows
#27. the road to programming hell is paved with global variables,
Steve McConnell
#28. As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.
Juan Enriquez
#29. 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
#30. I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
Irving Penn
#31. There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.
Arthur Laffer
#32. If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
Talcott Parsons
#33. No! I had too many variables! Two of those variables were actually the same variable, so I revised the equation and then it all made perfect sense!" Ada was truly excited. "You seem truly excited, Lady Ada," said Anna cautiously.
Jordan Stratford
#34. looking at: For example: Improve any of those variables, and you increase your earnings.
Pablo Vici
#35. There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#36. Like I said, they wanted to test us, see how we'd react to what they call the Variables, and to a problem that has no solution.
James Dashner
#37. I wish there was some way I could control the variables, but if the time in the darkness taught me anything, it's that the world is larger than my grasp.
Pierce Brown
#38. I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals
Lance Armstrong
#39. The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables.
Brad Furman
#40. Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable
Shane Eric Mathias
#41. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant 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. There is only the inevitable.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.
A.P.
#43. The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.
David Herman
#44. Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
Dan Pearce
#45. Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
Timothy Ferriss
#46. The naturally lonely person does not look for comfort in love, but accepts the variables as due course.
Maya Angelou
#47. The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model ... The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.
Herbert Simon
#48. How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.
Matt Stone
#49. Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.
James Clerk Maxwell
#50. Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
James Surowiecki
#51. I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
Brian H. Hook
#52. Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
Sandra Bernhard
#53. As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .
Karl Marx
#54. The "present" does not exist in an objective sense any more than "here" exists objectively, but the microscopic interactions within the world prompt the emergence of temporal phenomena within a system (for instance, ourselves) that interacts only through the medium of a myriad of variables. Our
Carlo Rovelli
#55. Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection.
Eric Greitens
#56. Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Margaret Halsey
#57. The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved.
Murad S. Shah
#58. Selecting the paper for your letterhead has more variables than you might think. Normal writing or computer printing paper is too light and poor quality to be used for letterhead. Using too heavy of a paper comes off as being ridged and over spending on a basic supply.
Mitch Stephen
#59. Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
Walter J. Phillips
#60. Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
Thomas Sowell
#61. In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
Ben Bernanke
#62. Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.
Michaela Conlin
#63. Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
Paul Valery
#64. Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.
Ron Parker
#65. The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.
Harry Treadaway
#66. understanding of the fundamentals - like balance, honor, and discipline - is the key to success in karate. Similarly, a solid understanding of the SiteCatalyst variables and how to use them will go a long way toward your SiteCatalyst education and proficiency.
Adam Greco
#67. If happiness is dependent on outside variables, it can't last. Variables always change. Real happiness has to come from within.
Gena Showalter
#68. My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
Janet Yellen
#69. Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.
Aubrey McClendon
#70. When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.
Leonid Hurwicz
#71. Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. Controlling for a large number of additional variables, they found that firms with at least one woman among the first hires were more successful and stayed longer in the market than all-male start-ups.
Iris Bohnet
#73. If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.
Sam Kean
#74. The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.
Robert Anton Wilson
#75. It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
Emile Durkheim
#76. When you start a session in R, the variables you create are in the global environment.,
Michael J. Crawley
#77. The greatest weakness of the quantitative approach is that it decontextualizes human behavior, removing an event from its real-world setting and ignoring the effects of variables not included in the model.
Christian Madsbjerg
#78. Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression
how long before the pot boiled over.
Chris Abani
#79. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Hannah More
#80. After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on the sleepy coastal town of Beach Haven, New York. The unstable element of calm, however, is that it can retain its current form only when the variables remain relatively constant.
Phil Wohl
#81. Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.
Kent Beck
#82. Locking can guarantee both visibility and atomicity; volatile variables can only guarantee visibility.
Brian Goetz
#83. But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
Feist
#84. book variables, student variables, and school variables.
Teri S. Lesesne
#85. Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
Naveen Jain
#86. 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
#87. That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow
#88. But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.
Faith Hunter
#89. Photography turns one and all into fools, including - especially - artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables as possible inside a 35 mm frame but doomed to return empty-handed far more often than not.
Richard Woodward
#90. The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.
Franck Khalfoun
#91. 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.
James F. Cooper
#92. Even God can't plan for everything. Too many variables.
Peter Watts
#93. 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
#94. The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
Hugh S. Johnson
#95. But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.
Emery Lord
#96. The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#97. Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.
Kevin Keck
#98. Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Control all the variables you can ... don't worry about the rest.
Forrest Griffin
#100. Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
Barry Ritholtz
