Quotes About Analysis

I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through the whole script and highlight everything my character says about me, and in another color I'll highlight what other characters say about me, and I'll highlight all the things I say about other characters.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his subject matter.

Mr. Upward italicises "at the present time" because he realises that you cannot, for instance, dismiss Hamlet on the ground that Shakespeare was not a Marxist.

La cordura no cuenta en las estadísticas.

I'd say there's a general thesis in here somewhere: any story that suffers from what seems like a moral failing (that seems sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, pedantic, appropriative, derivative of another writer's work, and so on) will be seen, with sufficient analytical snooping, to be suffering from a technical failing, and if that failing is addressed, it will (always) become a better story.

In any case the mind of the Third Estate is of capital interest in showing the historian that events have their immediate roots not in their antecedents but in the men who intervene by interpreting those events.

Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together.

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.

I can't analyse the secret of success. In my style of working, I stick to the basics and make stories revolving around the hero.

You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's working and what's not working.

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

As a bowler you need to keep an eye on what the batsman is trying to do till the last moment.

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

I enjoy watching Chris Matthews a lot. He reminds me of a throwback to the older school kind of pundits like Tim Russert.

Assistants like Tim Grgurich worked with me and watched film of me from my Oregon State days.

Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.