Variance Quotes - Page 3

• The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Years, Numbers

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• I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Religious, Believe, Phenomenology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

  Travis Morrison

  Writing, Blow, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Hands, Understanding, Generations

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Two, Three, Needs

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Risk, Progress

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.63, VM eBooks

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• It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Taken, Mean, Army

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

  Alan Sparhawk

  Together, Musician, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Weight, Littles

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.319

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.

  Warren Buffett

  Expectations, Negative, Dollars

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• However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

  Ronald Fisher

  Doe, Lines, Obligation

  Ronald Fisher's letter to L. Hogben (February 25, 1933) as quoted in "Natural Selection, Heredity, and Eugenics", book edited by J. H. Bennett, 1983.

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• Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

  Samuel Parr

  Justice, Sound, Policy

  Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673

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• The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Views, Years, Hardest

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• A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Book, Different

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• That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

  Herman Melville

  Butterfly, Character, Creativity

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.70, Northwestern University Press

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• There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

  Fyodor Tyutchev

  Freedom, Harmony, Feels

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• A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

  James Mackintosh

  Self, Vices, Harbors

  Sir James Mackintosh (1834). “A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, p.117

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• Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Curiosity, Courtesy

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• Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Prayer, Want Something, Risk

  Eugene H. Peterson (1987). “Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity”, p.44, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
  Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Powerful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

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• It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Taken, Mean, Army

  Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.3597, Madison & Adams Press

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• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

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