Quotes About Analysis

But Flick did not feel that his brother was entirely rational in his analysis of the Prince of Leah. Leah was one of the few remaining monarchies in the Southland, and Shea was an outspoken advocate of decentralized government, an opponent of absolute power. Nevertheless, he claimed friendship with the heir to a monarch's throne—facts which in Flick's opinion seemed entirely inconsistent

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins .

I hope to show in the process that critical analysis can be fun, and in doing so help to demolish the myth that analysis is the enemy of enjoyment.

Književno obrazovanje ima mnogo vrlina, ali sustavna misao nije jedna od njih.

The most uninspired form of criticism simply tells the story of a work in different words. Some students imagine they are writing criticism when for the most part they are simply paraphrasing a text, occasionally throwing in the odd comment of their own.

Those who can think up feminism or structuralism; those who can't apply such insights to Moby Dick or The Cat in the Hat.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

The footprints go this way, said Cuddy, and then they return. But the ones coming back aren't so deep as the ones going. You can see they're later ones because they're over the top of the other ones. So he was heavier than he was coming back, yes? Right, said Detritus. So that means...? He lose weight?

Sufficiently close examination changes the thing being observed.

But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

And though they clamor endlessly to ask, "Where do you get your ideas?" (a question I have never heard any SF writer worth her or his salt seriously try to answer), the question, "How do you put these ideas together?" (which, with a little thought and analysis, is sometimes answerable) is much rarer.

Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

I don't think much of the journalism that I see.

I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

My role as a broadcast journalist is to analyse information and pass it on to the community. And also as a journalist to hold governments to account.

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

How can you judge one film against another?

I don't try to try to judge people on performance in one short period of time.

We can be judged in many ways.