John Tukey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
-
Second place is just the first place loser.
-
I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
-
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
-
I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
-
How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
-
Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
-
I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
-
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
-
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
-
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
-
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
-
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
-
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
-
I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
-
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
-
I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
-
Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
-
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.
-
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
-
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
-
Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
