Quotes About Analysis

What a waste to attempt to change behavior without truly understanding the driving needs that cause such behavior!

Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.

Economics could not be an exact science, because the number of variables was too great, and stability of variables over time could not be guaranteed. As he was to put it later, it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.

Scientists are supposed to be dispassionate, cool-headed, and unemotional when they evaluate their data. But it's hard for me to avoid a sense of awe when I'm hunting fossils.

Political and economic experts, for example, actually do worse than dart-throwing monkeys when it comes to making long-term predictions.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.

No hacia otra cosa que examinarse, que analizar lo que en el ocurría, como si la suma de detalles pudieran darle la certidumbre de que vivía.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....

The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course.

study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks—otherwise known

First order of business: downloading and installing the Pasco forensic tool from Foundstone.

The law is the law. I'm just saying that for most of the judicial system, you do your crime, you serve your time. Brewster went to jail but he's still serving time and will be for the rest of his life. Ironically enough, he would've been slightly better off had he killed the girl instead of sleeping with her. And as a member of the judicial system, I'm not comfortable with that analysis.

I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails.

This is a Hieronymous Bosch of facts and figures and blood and graphs.

For Peirce, inquiry is always communal—it is the median of many observations that gives the position of the star—and the last analysis really is the last. In Peirce's cosmology, everyone's beliefs have to be the same in the end, because all opinion must converge.

statistical fiction

study of Shakespeare helped her to read character, or

When playing checkers or chess, he showed exceptional caution, studying each move at length, working out every possible countermove in his head. "I'll move just as soon as I get it figured out," he told opponents who tried to rush him. "You don't think I'm playing to get beaten, do you?"12 To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.