Quotes About Analysis

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

Consider, for example, the strange and fascinating story of Mohammed; analyze his life, compare him with men of achievement in this modern age of industry and finance, and observe how they have one outstanding trait in common, persistence!

The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.

Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

The one thing that separates the sheep from the goats, and success from failure, is the ability to analyze, study and weigh problems for yourself, and to make decisions for yourself.

It is a well known fact that an observant person can accurately analyze a man by seeing his workbench, desk or other place of employment. A well organized desk indicates a well organized brain. Show me the merchant's stock of goods and I will tell you whether he has an organized or disorganized brain, as there is a close relationship between one's mental attitude and one's physical environment.

Appropriateness of merchandise. The master salesperson analyzes both the prospective buyer and the buyer's needs, and offers only that which is appropriate to both.

Knowledge of the prospective buyer. The

observes and analyzes accurately what the prospective buyer does and says, but also what the prospective buyer does not do or say.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point

To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.

So you become numb to insults, particularly if you teach yourself to imagine that the person uttering them is a variant of a noisy ape with little personal control. Just keep your composure, smile, focus on analyzing the speaker not the message, and you'll win the argument. An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message. The psychologist

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.

it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

one cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good.

It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what

It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.