Quotes About Analysis

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me?

Some of the most important things to look for when checking underneath a fund's hood are its fees.

The sages of the world have only the right to tell us that they have analysed their minds and have found these facts, and if we do the same we shall also believe, and not before.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'

Part of how we decide how we allocate our media is we have fairly sophisticated ways of measuring our return on marketing spend, which helps us best analyze the most effective way and medium in which to spend our marketing dollars.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

In my experience, working as an intelligence analyst with my own pool of sources numbering close to 100, by far the most effective forms of human intelligence collection are rapport-building and direct questioning.

You have to know what competitors are doing in your space.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

Understand the poem not the poet.