Quotes About Analysis

The more we analyze, the more ambiguous things become.

No, of course not,' he agreed in a tone that implied he'd heard both the words I'd said and the words I hadn't said and would be mulling them over later on his own.

Too many people, possibly even the majority of them, were all too content to let others do that thinking and analysis for them.

Thrawn's unique ability to read a species' deepest psychological core by studying its artwork was one of his greatest strengths, enabling him to anticipate his opponents' moves right down to their likely battlefield tactics. New allies seeing it demonstrated for first time inevitably reacted with surprise, awe, or disbelief.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

All history is really nothing more than the application of ideology to the past.

Robert, that's a little too far off the wall, I think," Greer analyzed.

good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

afteraction review, or AAR.

Include some material in your business plan about your competition. Become obsessed by your competition. You may think you have none, but you do.

The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.

All I can do is read books and write books and edit books and critique books." —Toni Morrison

When I teach creative writing, I always speak about how you have to learn how to read your work." —Toni Morrison

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

Joe Granville, a well-known technician who created the popular On-Balance Volume indicator, said, "Volume precedes price.

We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.

Jane read her Anatomy, occasionally raising her eyes from a diagram to consider any human within sight in a dissecting sort of way which, Dot said, gave her the willies.

So I counted

Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi. Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)

The results were extraordinary. Over 70 percent of those who scored high on the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale correctly picked out the handkerchief-smuggling associate, compared to just 30 percent of the low scorers. Zeroing in on weakness may well be part of a serial killer's toolkit. But it may also come in handy at the airport.

Polemical, conflicting, attention-grabbing headlines like these are the mainstay of the media. And with good reason. It isn't truth that grabs our brains. It is certainty. It isn't balanced, considered analysis that captures our attention. It is bold and confident assertion.