Quotes About Analysis

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

The CBO is the only group that makes the weatherman's ten-day forecast look like exact science. They seem to miss their projections with extreme regularity.

I would think that to say 'regulations cost jobs' or 'regulations create jobs' is too simple, and we need to look at the regulation.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

In order to handle rejection, we have to reflect on the past, analyze/study it. Next, just like a computer, we have to reboot. Next, get it out of our system by rejecting every aspect of it.

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.

Besides my work doing NFL analysis and commentary for ESPN, I'm also involved in trying to get new products launched, and I have relationships with other companies to try to get things off the ground.

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

There are always holes in anyone's game.

Diving into data has never been more critical for businesses in order to make fast, accurate decisions about customer behaviors and needs and drive holistic business knowledge.

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

Whenever you go into a new industry, you definitely want to do your homework.

Honestly, I am too critical about my work.

Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.