Quotes About Analysis

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

Seeing sites and features in places where we never looked or never thought things might exist is causing archaeologists across the world to think deeper about their sites or entire cultures.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Game management is very important. Realizing the situation of a match.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

Life experiences help in understanding the character. And many things come to your mind regarding the character sketch when you read the script as many times as possible.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.