Top 164 Variables Quotes & Sayings

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

When you turn up at a ground, you expect the wicket to behave in a certain fashion and it doesn't. There are so many variables in this game. It becomes even more important when it comes to T20 cricket.

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.

All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

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.

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.

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.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

There are many variables in each game that make each one different.

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.

All variables are independent.

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two variables or groups of variables in a model . . . . The concepts refer to a model-a system of equations-and not to the 'real' world the model purports to describe.

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

There are a lot more variables with festivals than just playing in a venue.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.

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.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

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.

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.

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.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

If you're sitting in a monastery, where your schedule is set and you have very few uncontrolled variables, that's fantastic that you can do loving/kindness meditation, but that's not the world I live in.

There's all sorts of rumors... there's so many variables there. And I've learned with AC/DC also not to believe the rumors, because even fans fake things.

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.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing.

When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2.

Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

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.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

There are lots of variables that come into play in the industry, like attending parties and dating actors. When you don't indulge in all this, you tend to get affected in some way.

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but youre still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are more predictive than "school variables." But, having said that, we as a society can have much more effect on the school variables than on the home variables, so it's important and valuable to focus on the question of which interventions in schools are most effective and which are least effective.

We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.

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.

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.