Quotes About Analysis

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

Great intellects are skeptical.

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

The object of the theoretical (as separate from the practical) Qabalah, insofar as this thesis is concerned, is to enable the student to do three main things: First, to analyze every idea in terms of the Tree of Life. Second, to trace a necessary connection and relation between every and any class of ideas by referring them to this standard of comparison. Third, to translate any unknown system of symbolism into terms of any known one by its means.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

Running a bit behind today," he told them. "Sent off for tox as you'd flagged that. Shouldn't take long." She glanced down at the body. Morris hadn't yet made his Y cut. "What can you tell me just from the visual?" "Lieutenant, this woman is dead." "Peabody, note that down. We've got a dead woman.

Sacrifice was also in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, it was a personal, subjective assessment, a cost-benefit analysis that had no right answer, only a compass that spun around an individual's variant of true north. Throe

Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price

When I see a picture like the 1861 cotton market, I ask myself, "What caused that? Why did that happen?" Then I try to figure it out. From that, you learn an enormous amount. In

Too many people don't look at things objectively and try to see the facts; they instead look at them through their partisan lenses and try to figure out how to twist or spin them to fit their own 'side.'

There's whole television stations, magazines, organizations devoted to analyzing every up-and-down twist and turn, IPO, everything that happens in the formal economy. And yet the informal economy, these black and gray markets, actually make up for almost half of the global economy. And there's so little information that we have about them.

When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.