Quotes about Variables

There's so many variables in our sport. We try to minimize the likelihood of something going wrong.

Alex Izykowski

Our preliminary data showed that mothers were effective in increasing the mediating variables -- knowledge of how HIV is transmitted, self-efficacy to refuse sex and the intention to refuse sex -- than the other two interventions.

Barbara Dancy

The definition of the design problem comes from understanding the essence of the variables, but the solution evolves through the application of constants, principles of design that hold true in every case. The resulting design should be a marriage of the constants and the variables.

John Portman

The trick is to play with all the variables in your training to find what works best for your feet. Then be prepared with additional options in your gear bag.

John Vonhof

Our target is to do it promptly. How quickly that can be done depends on a lot of variables, in terms of how much information we get and how complex the things are to address.

Bud Tribble

There are a host of different variables.

Lee Gierczynski

There are a lot more variables now. There is a need now to document chemical usage, stewardship, a whole range of issues.

Jeff Herrick

There are so many variables here.

Don Depalma

There's certainly variables you look at, the biggest being past history. If they've had problems in the past, the bigger guys, those are the ones we'd like to participate.

Chuck Barta

We were surprised since antidepressants, particularly the newer class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), have been generally considered safe. However, even after taking into account many patient variables, as well as the type of antidepressant, the risk still remained. So there is something important going on here that we don't fully understand.

Lana Watkins

It will depend on what the supply is like. There are so many variables.

Alastair Clarkson

Managing sales compensation has always been a difficult task. As products and product configurations continue to get more complex, more and more companies are trying to use incentives as a way to drive specific behaviors. There are so many variables to this that compensation challenges mount to the point where traditional solutions like spreadsheets no longer provide an adequate remedy.

Denis Pombriant

They do not need to make a trip to let us know of their interest, or educate us about their organization. With some other teams, it was important to have a personal meeting in order to have a full discussion of all relevant variables.

Randy Hendricks

Sea surface temperature is the one that consistently comes up. What we found is that all the variables have an effect, but those tend to be on a storm-by- storm basis and not over a longer period.

Judith Curry

It's the perfect storm of variables that is converging for this game. People have been anticipating this game since the start of the season, and the buildup has been substantial.

Sean Pate

I think every season is important because there are so many variables for the conference and the schools, ... Certainly, this year presents the opportunity for the Big East Conference to step out and show its capabilities.

Mike Parsons

They played like they were down 2-0. You've got to deal with a lot of variables and a lot of bumps in the road. You just move on.

Gary Agnew

(There are) so many variables -- the weather, the wave height, how fast the anchoring process goes (and) how quickly we can get rigged and get the Deep Drone in the water.

William Sutton

The number of employees who are hired ... depends on market conditions and other variables. That's the most appropriate answer I can give you at this point.

Dan Francisco

The findings suggest that we need to do whatever we can to keep the transplanted pancreas functioning because it may protect against development of long-term kidney transplant dysfunction. The findings also underscore the importance of controlling weight, blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol -- the variables that define metabolic syndrome.

Jeffrey Rogers

If you have more complexity within your sales plan, a homegrown solution becomes difficult. So many people think [sales plans are] easy to do, but when you start talking about credit assignments, overlays, tier or ramped rates, and adjustments when products get returned, you're talking about a lot of variables. More times than not, a homegrown solution simply can't handle it.

Bob Conlin

At this point, ... it's so uncertain, there are so many variables out there, I think it's foolish for us to try to speculate on a particular launch date.

Bill Gerstenmaier

In looking at cognitive function and how it relates to drinking, I wondered how other variables, such as additional drug use, might have an influence. That is when it was found that smoking had a correlation.

Jennifer Glass

It's an untypical situation. If you have to rebuild your house completely, you have to have it demolished and removed. It's not like you'd be starting on a clean lot. There's so many variables. It's really a mess, to be honest.

Brady Endryck

One of the problems this year is that Easter is falling so late in the year and spring break has already passed. There are a lot of variables that have to be considered. You have to look at the total calendar.

Barry Watkins

There was a situation in Pittsburgh, and our understanding was that Luna was one of the individuals involved in the situation, ... He had been hit once before in the series and it was certain that, given the variables I had to work with, in that particular game and that particular situation, with the pitcher hitting behind him, I thought he was throwing at him intentionally.

Eric Cooper

What I hear all the time is that forestry is not rocket science, and it's not, ... It's harder, for with rocket science you have a set of unchanging variables, while with forestry you're dealing with complex, dynamically changing ecosystem.

Eric Taylor