Quotes About Analysis

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.