Top 25 Variables Quotes of 86 - Page 4

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

Jon Hamm

Thinking, People, Variables

"Jon Hamm Gets By With Help From His 'Friends'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. July 17, 2012.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

John Locke

Moving, Together, Variables

John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.132

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

Joan Didion

Cutting, Variables, Rooms

Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.6, Zola Books

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

Jean de la Bruyere

Men, Mind, Variables

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

Faith Hunter

Joy, Variables, Stones

Faith Hunter (2013). “Jane Yellowrock World Companion: (InterMix)”, p.12, Penguin

Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.

David Livermore

Other Cultures, Important, Variables

Source: bobmorris.biz

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

Brian H. Hook

Names, Variables, Common

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

Brad Furman

Casting, Variables, Complicated

"Gods of Egypt director and studio apologise for lack of diversity" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2015.

The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

Bill Drayton

Giving, Variables, Becoming