Quotes About Analysis

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.

I never practice calls. Everything you hear is reactionary. The way I look at it is that broadcasters are just paid observers, just there to tell you what we see.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

We are not only what we read. We are how we read.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

I'm good at reading people.

The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

When you're critical of yourself and your play, you just look at your reads, you look at how fast you can get the ball out.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.