The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense… — Elroy Dimson Copy Share Image
There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of… — Karl E. Weick Copy Share Image
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your… — Paul Houston Copy Share Image
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… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I… — Aubrey McClendon Copy Share Image
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who… — John E. McDonough Copy Share Image
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of… — Nigel Weiss Copy Share Image
“You know, it sounds like you guys didn’t really think this all the way through. You plugged us into an equation and… — Maximum Ride in Maximum Ride School's Out - Forever by James Patterson Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward. — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise. — Martin J. Whitman Copy Share Image
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