Quotes About Analysis

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

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

War is ninety percent information.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Those who genuinely want to help the movement should study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless...The poor and powerless already know what is wrong with their lives and those who want to help them should analyse the forces that keep them where they are. Better a sociology of the Pentagon or the Houston country club than of single mothers or inner-city gangs.

Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

As you read, you should follow this three-part process: jot down specific phrases, sentences, and paragraphs as you come across them; when you've finished your reading, go back and write a brief summary about what you've learned; and then write your own reactions, questions, and thoughts.

Thinking like your prey. . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities.

Wars are won by heads not hearts.