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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex. -- Marcus Buckingham
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. -- Edward Coke
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. -- Jonathan Swift
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. -- Ronald Fisher
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. -- Dorothea Dix
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment. -- Carol Gilligan
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. -- Alfred de Vigny
As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay. -- Ben Horowitz
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice. -- Samuel Parr
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. -- H. G. Wells
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. -- Jack Welch
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. -- William Shakespeare
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions -- Edward Coke
the Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... -- Erica Jong
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. -- James Mackintosh
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight. -- Samuel Smiles
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. -- Horace Mann
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. -- Victoria Woodhull
What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them. -- Timothy Leary
I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows. -- Travis Morrison
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it. -- Fyodor Tyutchev
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing. -- Harry Markowitz
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard. -- John Maynard Keynes
Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes. -- Alan Sparhawk
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. -- Walter Scott
Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks. -- Ludwig von Mises
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. -- Margaret Mitchell
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help. -- Boris Johnson

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