Quotes About Analysis

He was the first who dared to say, "Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, because you have been made to believe it from your childhood; but reason it all out, and after you have analysed it, then, if you find that it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others to live up to it.

It wouldn't do him any good to cry, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to think. He had to try to gather as much information as he could, and lay it all out, and reason through it, and come up with some ideas of what to do and how to help.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

Meditating on thoughts—being mindful of them—as he defines it, means "simply to be aware, as thoughts arise, that the mind is thinking, without getting involved in the content: not going off on a train of association, not analyzing the thought and why it came, but merely to be aware at the particular moment [that] 'thinking' is happening. If we fail to do this, to see our thoughts as such, they remain the unconscious filters on our perception.

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural

I watch these specialists, each with a pet theory, each contorting the evidence to fit. I'm even less convinced by them now than I was back then; they still have nothing to teach me. None of their categorizations are fruitful in analyzing my performance, since—there's no point in denying it—I'm equally good at everything.

With my near-total recall and my ability to correlate, I can assess a situation immediately, and choose the best course of action for my purposes; I'm never indecisive. Only theoretical topics pose a challenge.

I like watching Spanish and Italian games and looking at how they play compared to us.

I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

I try to avoid Politico to spare myself psoriasis of the brain but so many journalists cite it that I'm forced to be aware of it no matter how big a moat I build.

For me, honest critique is not all about your feelings and your ear. Honest critique is sitting down with an album that you may not put on in your spare time, and really digging into that album, so you can talk about the beat selection.

I work on the show every day, even when we aren't on the air. I'm compiling quotes from around the league, digging through clips. 'Chris Paul said this, that might spark a good conversation.' I'm looking at numbers, offensive and defensive efficiency.

At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

We are a complex species to observe.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.