Quotes About Analysis

That the past feels more distant as we physically move forwards is important, because a major risk factor for depression is the tendency to ruminate, getting stuck in a loop of over-analyzing things you've said, done or experienced in the past while getting steadily more despondent. Physically moving forwards can help prevent this by making the bad stuff seem further behind you.

Theory has all too often been a zoo in which we cage the wild beasts of violence that inhabit our worlds. We then gaze at these beasts from a safe distance, we contemplate them, we theorize how they would act in their own environments - and we never go to those environments where the beasts roam freely to actually check our theories. To do so would be disastrous. It would point out the absurdity of our analyses and the illusion of safety so carefully crafted.

You pounce on everything you said with a pair of tweezers and pluck it about until you can't remember exactly what it is you said, what context it was in, if you even said it, and if anyone heard you at all.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.

The more I attempted to escape through self-consultation, self-help therapies, psychology, psychiatry, and self-analysis, the more frustrated I became.

More details, more devils.

Tell me who's won and I'll tell you what it means.

Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.