Quotes About Analysis

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my own doubt.

Criticism must be like natural history, with absence of moralism

Échecs (jeu des). Image de la tactique militaire. Tous les grands capitaines y étaient forts. Trop sérieux pour un jeu, trop futile pour une science.

I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that's my chief defect, the real cause of my weakness. But this woman has taken possession of me in spite of myself, in spite of my fear and my knowledge of her; and she possesses me as if she had plucked out, one after the other, my every last aspiration.

The Society of the Spectacle is a Marxist work. It is an extraordinary analysis of and arraignment of Capital and the spectacular society it has engendered. It is not, however, just an analysis - it is conceived as a weapon in the revolutionary supercession of capitalist society and its replacement by communism.

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring.

Don't let people make mistakes. At least play the devil's advocateand explain why they might be making one.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Um metafísico é alguém que, quando você lhe diz que dois vezes dois são quatro, ele quer saber o que você entende por vezes, o que significa dois, e o que quer dizer são e por que isto dá quatro. Por fazerem tais perguntas, os metafísicos desfrutam um luxo oriental nas universidades e são respeitados como homens educados e inteligentes.

H.L. Mencken

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. —BARBARA TUCHMAN

No philosophy, no analysis, no aphorism, be it ever so profound, can compare in intensity and richness of meaning with a properly narrated story.

Seuls ceux qui sont amoureux de la sagesse auraient envie de penser. Cela revient à une tautologie décevante. Pour être apte à penser, il faudrait aimer la beauté et la justice et donc avoir une âme bonne. Le monde serait divisé en bons et en méchants sans qu'on sache pourquoi. Cette division, c'est exactement ce que nous ne cherchions pas. Dès lors il faut reprendre l'analyse.

Ninguna filosofía, análisis o aforismo, por profundo que sea, puede compararse en intensidad y riqueza de significado con una historia bien narrada.

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

True," Adam said. "But I can read numbers, Bob. Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help." Gaston

The teams disappeared into corners for the postgame spiel.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

Predicting the market is always tough.

In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.