Top 211 Parameters Quotes & Sayings

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

I can no longer understand what the parameters are for valuing a player. It's all too random and in the hands of whoever has more money.

Since I was a kid, I have always froze when I saw an action star perform a stunt defying the parameters of safety and fear.

Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

Network TV is so limiting. There are so many parameters.

With Jesus we have 100 percent security, and no one can ever breach the parameters of His love.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what a kid's limit is in the heat, ... The policy itself that was adopted by the OSAA executive board gives the coaches some parameters as to how to structure their practices and guidelines to follow.

When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

We have to see that all regions of India, particularly the east and west, are brought on par in development parameters.

I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

The BJP simply does not want Andhra Pradesh to become the number one state in all development parameters and Naidu getting credit.

There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more engaged with life.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!

Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When you're creating a song, there should never be any parameters, so being high is okay because your mind can wander all over the place.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.

Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Stretching your parameters is a necessity if you wan to keep growing, and sometimes the best way to do that is to dive into the deep end.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.