Quotes About Analysis

In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

It is the theory which decides what can be observed

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

If I were given one hour to save the world, I would spend 50 minutes defining the problem.

All reading is interpretation, every reading reveals and is dependent on the circumstances of its reader.

The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.