Quotes About Analysis

Not so. Voyons! One fact leads to another—so we continue. Does the next fit in with that? A merveille! Good! We can proceed. This next little fact —no! Ah, that is curious! There is something missing—a link in the chain that is not there. We examine. We search. And that little curious fact, that possibly paltry little detail that will not tally, we put it here!" He made an extravagant gesture with his hand. "It is significant! It is tremendous!

Come now, monsieur, you're not going to run down the value of details as clues?

I wonder," I said. "I think each one of us in his secret heart fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes.

What have I always told you? Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.

methods of Hercule Poirot. I do not run to and fro, making

ah, sim; temo que nosso amigo de devonshire não tenha usado suas pequenas células cinzentas. mediu as pegadas, mas deixou de refletir e organizar as ideias com a ordem e o método necessários.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

You never really get caught up in things, do you, Ann?" "No," said Ann thoughtfully, "I don't think I do. I think I'm one of those people who is a born observer. More like a commentator on the radio.

For me to try to analyze and explain Japanese society from that point of view was therefore impossible. I simply felt the vague dissatisfactions and dislikes that Japanese society encouraged, and in order to contend with these feelings, I had joined the most radical movement I could find. Looking back on it now, my behavior seems terribly frivolous and reckless.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

when proving what caused an accident, disciplines such as metallurgy are much less difficult to employ than psychology. So perhaps they should better be called "easy science" and psychology called "hard science.

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

People read way too much into personalities and all that stuff.

Ahmed Patel and Sonia Gandhi are not too different political personalities.

It's Charles Barkley. He's a personality. I don't count him as a journalist.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.