Quotes About Analysis

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

A historian cannot pick and choose his facts; he must deal with all the evidence.

If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.

The historian who puts his system first can hardly escape the heresy of preferring the facts which suit his system best.

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

It is entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in the United States.

Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

Players talk about pot odds all the time, especially when they try to justify a call that they made. Whenever I hear this line of reasoning, though, I can't help but wonder if they properly thought through the consequences of their call.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

You have to be able to analyse things well. Before I receive a pass, I always look to see what options I have.

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

I'd be the first to tell you that stats lie and at receiver more than any other position, stats lie.

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things that will be taught to the students by a film club.

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

Engineers are great at many things. They're not necessarily great at recognizing basic human psychology.