Quotes About Analysis

I am not one to seek simple causes.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I won't be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.

You always look for certain things you can do better and what went wrong.

If I watch big games like the Champions League on TV then I'm definitely watching what different centre-backs are doing in certain situations.

I have to know the characteristics of the players. I have to adapt myself to the characteristics of the championship and the players. Now I study my players.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

As a coach, you look for the elements. Sort of like a chemist, you want to say, 'Okay, here we have all of the parts,' and make what you think will be a successful line.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

While I have supported marriage equality since my days as a state senator over a decade ago, I have since conducted an extensive legal analysis that has only emboldened my support as attorney general.

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

I've known him for years, and I am supporting Chris Christie for president. Whether he will, in the final analysis, be the president, I don't know.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day?

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it's data analysis or biomechanics, it can give you an edge - and I'd be a fool if I didn't want that edge.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.