Quotes About Analysis

Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success.

This asset is almost always used for two purposes: operational record keeping and analytical decision making. Simply speaking, the operational systems are where you put the data in, and the DW/BI system

When you have got a new idea, read Aristotle to find out what's wrong with it.

One way to end up with $1 million is to start with $2 million and use technical analysis.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It is imperative, too, that every strategy takes into account an analysis and understanding of the global financial and economic environment marked by slower growth, increased competition, altered consumer behavior, and more government intervention.

Nehru had an unusual capacity – unusual among politicians, at any rate – to view both sides of the question

the most enjoyable Western she knew and one of the most fruitful to analyze, but her students could see only John Wayne's politics: his presence wiped out the rest of the film for them, destroyed its personality. "But one has to take their feelings into account," she said.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

It is not literally true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people will not see what is in a picture, or will see it through the most readily available visual cliches. It takes training and an analytical vocabulary to talk about what is in a picture, and to know what to look for. A picture is worth a thousand words only for those who already have internalized an adequate vocabulary.

A prose work of some length that has something wrong with it.

There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.

To appreciate its apparent complication, it is useful to zoom in on its image (which you can access via the links in this endnote).

One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.

If understanding language and other phenomena through statistical analysis does not count as true understanding, then humans have no understanding either.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

I am the first to admit that I am not the greatest campaign strategist or political analyst.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I study these bills. I read them carefully. If it makes sense, I'll sign on them. If not, I don't.

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.