Quotes About Analysis

Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

It's no fun being a specimen.

There's always speculation around the best players.

The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That's something you hear often. But I think there's more to it than just the speed of the players - there's also the speed with which you have to process information around you.

In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.

I love lawyers. And I like to talk to lawyers, and I like to engage in a spirited discussion with lawyers.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.