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Quotes About Analysis

We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.
~ W. Kamau Bell
I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: they are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.
~ Daniel Negreanu
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
~ Harold S. Geneen
T20 is such a format that finishes quickly, and you only have four overs. If there are three bad balls in one over, you will go for runs, and your whole analysis suffers. The team is on back foot because of three balls. So each and every ball becomes very important. It makes the bowler think.
~ Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
~ Elliott Abrams
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
~ Octavio Paz
A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.
~ Jo Swinson
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
~ Charles Francis Richter
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
~ J. Maarten Troost
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
~ Joan Didion
I did a guest appearance on 'Entourage.' That was horrible, because I'm used to analysing the characters, working with all the details... and they said, 'No no no, walk and talk, walk and talk! It's energy energy energy!' - so it didn't quite suit me.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
The numbers don't lie, so make sure to come in with an open mind when it comes to building your bag. For example, the brand that helps you drive it longer and straighter might not suit you best when it comes to your short game.
~ Paige Spiranac
The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
~ Cass Sunstein
What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.
~ Richard Thaler
Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.
~ Jason Calacanis
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
~ Carl Olson
The way I work, and the material we work with, I think if you analyze too much and have too many specific ideas, it just becomes a little bit too superficial, and then performances might become too self-conscious and project relatively narrow things.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The student is to read history actively not passively.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.
~ Ramsay MacMullen
Even the once-doubting Sir Lionel Luckhoo, identified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful attorney in the world, was forced to conclude after an exhaustive analysis of the evidence, "I say unequivocally that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.
~ Ravi Zacharias