Quotes About Analysis

It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

I think I'm a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven't attempted before.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

History is an argument without end.

Uh-oh! BEWARE!!!" said Fensler. "Never, ever marry the best sex of your life. It only happens with someone who is very dangerous for you. It's passionate, exciting, but it generally indicates that you are pushing each other's dysfunctional buttons. Be very wary of men you are crazily sexually attracted to-they're the dangerous ones for you. That's what all analysis says in one form or another.

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

Monstrosities could be slain; but first they must be understood

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

Better to be without dialectic rather than without thinking.

Exploring an aspect of the truth will be re- measuring the analogy.

On all occasions there are better solutions waiting for us to be found if we do subtle analysis with sharp- witted minds.