George E. P. Box Quotes
Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I lean into all things that are a little off. I will always wear overalls. At this point, I find a way in most of my life to wear a jumpsuit or an overall, anything that's sort of like an all-in-one situation. I do that on the red carpet a lot.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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There are no problems, only opportunities.
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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.
