Quotes About Analysis

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.

98% of all statistics are made up.

Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.

You know you're a skydiver when you analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy/not too windy to jump.

Recall those lovely words of Buddha when he said, "Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect, but must analyze them the way a goldsmith analyzes gold—by cutting, scraping, rubbing, melting.

An onion-breathed technician in a lab coat measures the distance between Werner's temples, the circumference of his head, and the thickness and shape of his lips. Calipers are used to evaluate his feet, the length of his fingers, and the distance between his eyes and his navel. They measure his penis. The angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.

cost-benefit analysis.

Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that have been far too weak because they had no basis for accepting the existence of either cause and effect or natural laws… Hume's scepticism about cause and effect and his agnosticism about the external world are of course jettisoned the moment he leaves his study.

a detective must occasionally be guided by his worst imaginings – which is to say that he must put himself in the mind of the criminal.

The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

When I broadcast my first NFL game during the 1989 season, I had absolutely no idea what to study or how to study. NBC provided me with a handful of newspaper articles, we watched some film at the team facility on Friday before the game, and we interviewed some players and coaches.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

I got some experience appearing as a guest on several news channels, and I thought over the years I would be able to mix practicing law and writing with providing analysis on TV. I didn't know that would lead to a full-time opportunity that would take me away from my law practice. When MSNBC made me an offer to join, I jumped at it.

Some psychiatrist told me I was interested in sculpture because I dealt in flat surfaces and needed something with dimension.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I am the political psychiatrist to the stars.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.