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Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. -- Philip Zimbardo
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
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
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. -- Dee Dee Myers
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. -- Douglas Horton
To be is to be the value of a variable. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God. -- Jose Bergamin
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. -- B. F. Skinner
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
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
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically. -- John Carroll
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a fixed gear! -- Henri Desgrange
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
I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity. -- Peter Thiel
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to minus or from minus to plus or the price and quantity of x or y, the direction of historical movement can be reversed. -- Robert Gilpin
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables. -- David Foster Wallace
I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away. -- Markus Zusak
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it. -- Bill Parcells
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. -- Martin Filler
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. -- Danny Meyer
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. -- Ben Bernanke
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
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
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. -- Fred Savage
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
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
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
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you. -- Lisa Kleypas
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
Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables. -- Alan Casden
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. -- Sunil Gavaskar
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
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
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
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth. -- Jeremy Grantham
It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character. -- Blair Underwood
All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it. -- Ben Foster
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. -- William Baldwin
All variables are independent. -- Thomas Pynchon
Time is a series of fluctuating variables. -- Terence McKenna
The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables. -- Brad Furman
Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest. -- Forrest Griffin
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours. -- Tim Ferriss
The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise. -- Martin J. Whitman
Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing. -- Ron Parker
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life. -- Sandra Bernhard
Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know. -- Garrett Hardin
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. -- Thomas Sowell
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants. -- Sam Kean
Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend. -- Tucker Max
All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward. -- Cody Lundin
The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose. -- Harry Treadaway
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ -- Brian H. Hook
In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. -- Adrian Grenier
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.
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
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
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
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
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 -- Fred Savage
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
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was. -- Jessica Maxwell
That's the thing about a human life-there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints. -- Karl E. Weick
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
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
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
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
A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables. -- Michael Bierut
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
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 -- Robyn Dawes
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
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
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

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