Quotes About Analysis

It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been analyzed. Instead, all I could see were question marks.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

A literary critic should have no emotions except those immediately provoked by a work of art.

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds,... for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

If Hell is where nothing connects, then being in the field of English must be the key to heaven's door! We are in the business of finding connections--within texts, between texts and contexts, between texts and ourselves, between our readings and the readings of other interpreters.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

People who do not understand irony cannot understand fiction.

Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.

Because you told me once that the difference between a columnist and a reporter is that the columnist has the luxury to not only ask why but to try and answer it.

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What I was actually doing was observing.....I feel like my local focus frees me from the global bias that gets in the way of top-down thinkers

If you know a person's history, you can use it to help predict what that person might do. A person's history can be the key to understanding his motivation for committing a crime.

Despite suggestions to the contrary (including by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), there was no Trump doctrine; Trump's version of "America first" prompted one analyst to define the administration's strategy as "primacy without a purpose." 2 As with other aspects of his foreign policy, Trump used a bully pulpit to declare America's predominance in a region from which he otherwise wanted to withdraw.

Sound is complex. There are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens.

If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!

the literature student has learned to inquire, to question, to interpret, to critique, to compare, to research, to argue, to sift, to analyze, to shape, to express. His intellect can be put to broad use. The computer major, by contrast, is a technician - a plumber clutching a single, albeit shining, box of tools.

La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea

Reason is only good to mummify reality in moments of calm or analyze its future storms, never to resolve a crisis of the moment

De pronto me alegra poder pensar que los críticos son mucho más necesarios de lo que yo mismo estoy dispuesto a reconocer [...] porque los creadores [...] son incapaces de extraer las consecuencias dialécticas de su obra, postular los fundamentos y la trascendencia de lo que están escribiendo o improvisando.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

History is not the pure past; history is a past interpreted from the present of the historian.