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“The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.”

Ifs May Whole Order Existence Particular Range Entity Affirmation Variables Ontology Ifs And

Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

“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.”

Sometimes Play Certain Actors Process Difficult Fans Findings Associates Baggage Variables

Author:Franck Khalfoun

“When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.”

Trying Happens Internet Moon Target Controlled Attacking Rifles Variables Limited Knowledge

Author:Edward Snowden

“There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.”

Thinking Want Different Certain Actors Simple Watches Fans Strategy Sensibility Variables

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“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.”

Looks States Reason Government Order Growth Results Policy Changed Taxes Get Better Variables State Government

Author:Arthur Laffer

“The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.”

Different Reading Nations Moral Morality Standards Code Customs Variables

Author:Norm MacDonald

“A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.”

Mind Past Opportunity Waiting Results Majors Resources Investing Available Curious Willingness Odds Multiple Prudence Involving Diagnosis Variables Using Resources

Author:Charlie Munger

“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.”

Stills Literature Speech Familiar Versions Quotations Variables True Ones

Author:Carl Clinton Van Doren

“The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.”

Men Different Pleasure Principles Mankind Particular Diversity Firm Stable Variables Different Times

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.”

Thinking Hard Running Sports Goal Change Chance Perfect Steps Conditions Errors Tiny Satisfied Extras Realistic Racing Margins Variables Skis Cool Things One Chance Realistic Goals Ski Racing

Author:Ted Ligety

“Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.”

Two Theatrical Variables Distributors

Author:Tucker Max

“I'm always intrigued by new challenges and things that I've never done before and new experiences. It sounds so simple, but the primary interest is just something that's good and instills within me some kind of gut feeling that feels like something that I'm passionate and excited about, and there can be multiple variables that can instill that. It can be simply a filmmaker, it can just be a character, it can just be the script, or a combination of all those things. But, I'm always just looking to do things that I've never done before, primarily.”

“Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.”

Important Environment Paper Lows Strategy Objectives Clarity Variables

Author:Stephen Covey

“Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently”

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.”

Problem Humanity Issues Circumstances Greed Tiny Inequality Timeless Discussing Variables Parameters Old Things Tiny Things

Author:Dan Mangan

“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.”

People Shows Animal Study Violence Crime Higher Areas Abuse Rate Violent Related Variables Slaughterhouses Interpersonal Violent Crimes Crime Rates

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.”

Real Facts Together Race Successful Team Share Events Involved Preparation Celebration Variables

Author:Chris Hoy

“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.”

Destiny Influence Figures Over You Our Destiny Your Destiny Diligence Variables Diligent

Author:Carleton Young

“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.”

Reason Together Moving Courses Found Causes Opinion Corruption Thee Manifest Suspicion Variables

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon

“Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.”

People Thinking Want Variables

Author:Jon Hamm

“With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.”

Feels Wells Littles Film Sound Rooms Performances Nervous Performing Variables Acoustics Premieres Live Performance

Author:Richard Ayoade

“The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.”

Seems Too Much Constant Vary Variables

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“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.”

Values Quality Four Development Cost Projects Excellent Stakes Scope Variables

Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“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.”

Littles Two Process Simple Numbers Cases Models Miracle Cells Complexity Considering Equations Simplest Linear Variables Linear Equations

Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy

“We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

Thinking Emotional Keys Research Financial Educational Reform Usual Engines Initials Variables Educational Reform

Author:David Edward

“It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.”

Needs Trying Humans Challenges Talking Computer Variables Basic Needs

Author:Peter P. Mahoney

“Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.”

Thinking World Ideas Hands Teaching Math Resistance Curriculum Variables Calculating

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are more predictive than "school variables." But, having said that, we as a society can have much more effect on the school variables than on the home variables, so it's important and valuable to focus on the question of which interventions in schools are most effective and which are least effective.”

Said Important Home School Focus Effects Students Findings Lows Valuable Income Performing Consistent Etc Intervention Variables Parental

Author:Nicholas Lemann

“Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.”

Cookies Variables Cutters Cookie Cutters

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...”

Process Complicated Casting Variables

Author:Brad Furman

“Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.”

“Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.”

Knows Variables Interconnected

Book:Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

Source: Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

“Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.”

May Art Reality Order Decision Numbers Amount Aspect Accounts Mere Practicals Literacy Variables Numeracy

Book:Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

Source: Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

“We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.”

Art Modern Subjects Structure Describing Crude Variables Modern Science

Author:Terence McKenna

“Time is a series of fluctuating variables.”

Series Variables

Author:Terence McKenna

“"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense that the future events are highly variable and unknowable that gives us the best sense for risk.”

Giving Mean Happens Risk Events Standards Variables Deviation Future Events Variability

Author:Elroy Dimson

“Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.”

Mean Goal Achieve Fixed Variables

Author:William James

“Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.”

Made Done Fall Stars Written Hollywood Scripts Rising Superstitions Versus Variables

Author:Jon Spaihts

“Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.”

Opinion Variables

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.”

Children Facts Light Figures Particular Expression Wind Paper Infinite Photograph Mood My Children Tension Muscles Shade Afternoon Fractions Posture Variables

Book:Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“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.”

“In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”

Problem Helpful Dilemma Variables

Book:Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit, Will Travel

“To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modelling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make strong conclusions based on mere correlation of two (or more) time series.”

“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.”

Made Social Deals Numbers Fields Essentials Models Structure Property Characteristics Complexity Biology Large Numbers Variables Social Science Physical Science

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.”

Long Self Social Term Economic Planets Materials Innovation Evolve Long Term Doomed Scorn Wipe Experimentation Variables Raw Materials

Book:Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“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.”

Ifs Writing Two Feelings Seems Energy Critical Variables

Author:Kevin Keck

“Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus.”

Important Helping Company Focus Happenings Organization Speed Planning Factors Managers Executives Strategic Coverage Variables Strategic Planning Calculus Health Coverage

Author:John E. McDonough

“In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.”

Different Body Moving Games Decision Defense Your Body Thrown Teammate Variables

Author:Stephen Curry

“One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity; another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.”

I Can Real Done Problem Bigs Light Kids Sound Clothes Research Areas Tolerate Sensitivity Variables Sensory

Author:Temple Grandin

“There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone.”

People Ifs Persons Play Rooms Comedy Performances Comedian Interaction Proven Really Great Mixtures Variables Single Person Weirdness Proven Wrong

Author:B. J. Porter

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