Quotes About Analysis

She'd made a policy not to analyze men she dated. Too often you learned more than you wanted to know.

If he goes after Sophia's father right after the divorce, then everybody knows he's whacked out over it. She'd spent some time analyzing it, running theories. Like if I want to get Theo for something, I sit back, wait, figure out how to hit him best. Then when I do, he's not expecting it and doesn't even know why he's getting it. She nodded. It's scientific, and lots more satisfying. The kid's a genius, Ty commented.

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

Right speech requires clarity of mind and freedom from confusion about the meaning of non-duality, that super-ordinary reality embracing self and other. Buddhists often feel that to criticise firmly and harshly means being dualist. An increasing number of Western Buddhists have adopted the same polite, diplomatic tone. But dualism refers to greed, anger and delusion, not to critical analysis to end greed, anger and delusion. We

It took some time for Boomers to reach their "uncomfortable analysis" phase. This stands in contrast to Generation X, who entered that phase immediately and never left.

But its more illuminating feature is something that often happens with popular history: An attempt at analyzing the distant past ends up being more astute about the living present.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Why do I do anything? I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Art, inspiration, love, they're all so easy to dissect. To explain away.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

hedonic regression analysis to identify how markets valued individual attributes and how those attribute values changed over time.

hedonic regression analysis expresses the total price of a product as the sum of individual so-called shadow prices (some positive, others negative) that the market places on each of the product's characteristics

In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers. Passive

Discovery-driven planning

Data is not the phenomenon. It represents the phenomenon, but not very well.

In dealing with disruptive technologies leading to new markets, however, market researchers and business planners have consistently dismal records.

Rita G. McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan, "Discovery-Driven Planning," Harvard Business Review, July–August, 1995, 4–12.

Let me explain in management terms: police chiefs need to look at the numbers of each type of crime, over time, to know whether their strategy is working. The manager of a business cannot see the complete health of the company by looking at specific orders from specific customers; he or she needs to have things aggregated as revenues, costs, and profits.

Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic.

If I examine a painting through a microscope I shall learn about the texture of the paint, but nothing about the artists intention in painting the picture

The Four Questions?" "As put forth by Mettleheim: How did this happen? How could this happen? Is it exceptional? How will it be avoided in the future?

Newspapers are read differently now [. . .] Between the lines.