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“We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.”

Years Beautiful Millions Path Taken Share Planets Species Billions Dust Cells Meaning Of Life Atoms Organisms Galaxy Particles Variables Living Organisms Flukes

Book:Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life

“Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.”

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”

Beauty Constant Imperfect Ugliness Variables

Author:Douglas Horton

“If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place.”

“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”

Helping Bigs Goal Realizing Race Steps Achievement Majors Training Athlete Focused Help Me Quests Stay Focused Down The Road Variables

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Kids Born Justice Higher Diversity Social Justice Income Sat Score Boots Variables Sat Scores

Author:Paul Houston

“The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.”

“To be is to be the value of a variable.”

Values Good Life Variables

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“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.”

Long Facts Dream Bigs Action Goal Term Too Much Months Distance Excuse Believer Planning Long Term Variables Postponing

Author:Tim Ferriss

“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.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Enough Facts Reality Commitment Intention Clarity Firm Qualified Matter Of Fact Variables

Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

“In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.”

“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”

“All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.”

Adventure Wind Travel Funny Travel Variables

Book:Mutiny on the Bounty

Source: Mutiny on the Bounty

“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”

World Purpose Growth Change Opinion Circumstances Foolish Variables Irrevocable Starting Anew

Author:William H. Seward

“Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge”

Ifs Would Be Fall Challenges Imagine Succeed Program Cute Dull Graduates No Hope Variables Admission Dull Life

Author:Robyn Dawes

“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”

“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”

Men World Running Garden Constant Evening Vegetables Fence Patches Variables

Book:Condolences of the season: selected poems

Source: Condolences of the season: selected poems

“In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.”

Ifs Ends Enough Might Opportunity Interesting Cases Five Risk Function Buying Variables Prioritize Sorting

Author:Sam Zell

“I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.”

Light Seems Courses Interest Cases Plans Photography Areas Luck Photographer Starting Details Mood Weather Fixed Location Starting Point Variables Personal Interest Choose Me

Author:Josef Hoflehner

“Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ... If you look back into the sun's past, you find that we live in a period of abnormally high solar activity. ... It's a boom-bust system, and I would expect a crash soon. ... Having a crash would certainly allow us to pin down the sun's true level of influence on the Earth's climate. Then we will be able to act on fact, rather than from fear.”

Ifs Looks Facts Able Earth Past Levels Sun Influence Periods Activity Evidence Climate Patterns Obvious Explanation Global Warming Crash Behaviour Pins Variables

Author:Nigel Weiss

“The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.”

Made Differences Results Politician Models Evidence Painful Hardest Mathematical Global Warming Holocaust Scenarios Selected Variables Hysteria Mathematical Models

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.”

Ifs Mean Hands Moving Science Time Objects Function Evolve Clock Cheat Really Mean Measurement Variables

Author:Carlo Rovelli

“Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for it, so that it can be regarded as one of the wandering stars. For the fact that it is not the centre of all revolutions is made clear by the apparent irregular motion of the wandering stars, and their variable distances from the Earth, which cannot be understood in a circle having the same centre as the Earth.”

Thinking Made Facts Earth Science Stars Clear Revolution Understood Distance Circles Wander Appropriate Centre Objections Variables Mobility

Book:On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

“The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.”

Feels Choices Term Acting Crazy Paper Madness Papers Variables Term Paper

Author:Fred Savage

“I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.”

Wells Looks Two Different Done Character Interesting Quality Scene Thirds Screenplays Arcs Variables

Author:William Baldwin

“O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!”

Made Hard Light Pain Hours Please Angel Ease Shade Uncertain Anguish Brows Variables Aspens

Author:Walter Scott

“To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.”

Way Different Behavior Controlled Another Way Variables Different Meanings

Book:Contingencies of Reinforcement

Source: Contingencies of Reinforcement

“Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.”

Government Happens Care Suffering Names Economy Cost Taxes Benefits Health Care Welfare Unemployment Revenue Compensation Variables Workmen

Author:Meg Whitman

“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.”

Ifs Chance Society Becoming Degrees Behavior Percent Violent Probability Infant Chances Are Validity Variables Affectionate Likelihood Developmental

Author:James W. Prescott

“Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are definitely preventable, but they're a lapse of mental awareness and that happens with fatigue. I'm not trying to make excuses. This is just the reality of the situation.”

Thinking Trying Made Reality Happens Mistake Situation Awareness Yeah Excuse Fatigue Breakdown Variables Lapses

Author:Gerry Fleming

“I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_”

Problem Names Language Common Majors Programming Programming Languages Variables Software Engineering Major Problems

Author:Brian H. Hook

“Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).”

“All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.”

Thinking Moving Situation Survival Moving Forward Host Variables Think Positive

Author:Cody Lundin

“In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.”

Persons Successful Safety Missions Flying Aviation Rescue Distress Expertise Contributing Variables Preparedness

Author:Tom Gross

“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.”

Knows I Can Can Do Work Out Studios Introducing Variables

Author:Irving Penn

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

Ifs Should Whole Remember Values Easy Keys Degrees Difficulty Method Investment Complexes Endure Investing Factors Alternatives Dependent Investors Shifting Variables Diving Payoff

Author:Warren Buffett

“There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.”

Facts Doubt Infinite No Doubt Quantity Variables

Author:Georg Cantor

“You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'”

Thinking Life Whole Life Is Understanding Numbers Dying Increase Whole Life Logical Sane Declaration Coming Back Never Change Axioms Variables Time To Think

Author:Stephen King

“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”

Values Fall Sex Conditions Objects Simplicity Patterns Entertainment Substance Diets Toxic Quantity Organisms Items Sequence Deprived Temperature Variables Optimum

Author:Gregory Bateson

“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.”

Needs Humans Feelings Individual Force Human Nature Depends Limits Capacity Unlimited Abyss Variables Insatiable

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.”

Social Technology Independent Determined Former Dependent Latter Variables Social Systems

Author:Leslie White

“Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.”

Values Social Subjects Return Morality Limits Diversity Negative Safety Good Things Rational Variables Articulation Social Values Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.”

“Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.”

Way Whole Moments Choices Decision Subjects Emotional Approach Photographer Including Instant Interpretation Selection Subjective Exposure Variables Cinematic

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.”

Two Use Hours Dollars Income Relative Variables

Author:Tim Ferriss

“It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.”

Humans Matter Lying Dies Focus Conditions Dying Willing Priorities Human Condition What Matters Variables Weird Things Willing To Die Everybody Lies

Author:David Shore

“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.”

Ifs Needs Should Running Given Answers Running Away Fluid Variables

Book:Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food

Source: Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food

“"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."”

Ideas Powerful Education Mathematics Notion Math Most Powerful Variables Math Education

Author:Alexander Dewdney

“Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.”

Fashion Standards Vote Election Casts Uniforms Ballots Variables National Standards

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.”

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