"Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."

-- John Tukey

#Focus Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Summary Quotes

“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isâ€”an intense form of thought.”
“We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.”
“It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the law and treated as indifferent by public opinion. It is only through children that relations cease to be a purely private matter.”
“I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.”
“When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.”
“To change your horse you must first change yourself!”

Source : Clinton Anderson (2009). “Clinton Anderson: Lessons Well Learned: Why My Method Works for Any Horse”, p.132, Trafalgar Square Books
“Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!”

Source : Bruce Wilkinson (2013). “The Prayer of Jabez for Teens”, p.67, Multnomah
“It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in werenâ€™t so different. We saw the same sunset.”

Source : S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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