Top 40 George E P Box Quotes
#1. I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
George W. Buck
#2. If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
George Harrison
#3. Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.
George Foreman
#4. The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.
George E.P. Box
#5. But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing.
George Eliot
#6. Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile
#7. Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
George E.P. Box
#8. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
George E.P. Box
#9. Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
George Takei
#10. You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. Bush
#11. Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.
George Tahdooahnippah
#12. 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.
George E.P. Box
#13. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#14. a bunch of granola eaters who hate George Bush.
C.J. Box
#15. All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind ...
George E.P. Box
#16. Can you be sure?"
"I haven't spent the last fifteen hundred years learning how to knit my own socks, boy!" The crone looked like she might box Heinrich's ears, if she could reach them.
Jessica Day George
#17. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during "God Save the King" than stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#18. Shaul is sure that Israel's test of survival, daily undergone, is the secret of Israeli enterprise. When you're concerned about your survival, every day, you think outside of the box
George Gilder
#19. It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box
George Orwell
#20. Floor, shaking a dice-box and laughing excitedly.
George Orwell
#21. Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.
George E.P. Box
#22. If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.
Alona Tal
#23. I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
George Harrison
#24. If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
George Lucas
#25. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
#26. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman
#27. The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number of problems, but also, and perhaps equally important, moral is improved.
George E.P. Box
#28. But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them.
George MacDonald
#30. Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.
George Lucas
#31. Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
George E.P. Box
#32. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy.
George Nolfi
#33. The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.
George E.P. Box
#34. The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
George E.P. Box
#35. Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.
George E.P. Box
#36. If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
George Carlin
#37. If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
George Weinberg
#38. I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.
Helen George
#39. To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).
George E.P. Box
#40. I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.
Jason Alexander
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