In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable." — Alexander Dewdney Copy Share Image
I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
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
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars… — Jon Spaihts 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
Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation... you… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
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
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
You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image