John Tukey Quotes

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

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• I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Society
  • Reflection

• I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Music
  • Women

• Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Reader

• One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

  

  Donald Faison
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• It's not a battle that we would have designed. Heavy mechanized forces were coming up against light infantry, and frankly, we held our breath.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Battle
  • Breath
  • Designed

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• A modern poet has characterized the personality of art and the impersonality of science as follows: Art is I: Science is We.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Art
  • Science
  • Personality

• I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

  

  Patty Loveless
  • Music

• I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Die

• I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • Small

• Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • People
  • Worry

• I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Country
  • Judo

• My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Pool
  • Unfortunate
  • Paparazzi

• My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • High School

• The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

  

  George F. R. Ellis
  • Months
  • Flowery

• Christ is a rock in a weary land, a covert from the tempest of Divine justice, receiving through the ages the snows of Divine mercy, and melting them for the green pastures and still waters of God's peaceful flock — a rock against which wicked men and devils have breathed their empty curses in vain, for eighteen hundred years.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Rock
  • Justice
  • Christ

• The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

  

  John Tukey
  • Backyards
  • Statistician