Quotes About Analysis

All great poets become naturally, fatally, critics.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Standard & Poor's Dow Jones Indices published a statistical analysis in 2016 detailing the dismal record of "active" portfolio managers: As is typically the case, about two-thirds of active large-capitalization managers underperformed the S&P 500 large-cap index during 2015. Nor

Nor were managers any better in the supposedly less efficient, small-capitalization universe. Almost three-quarters of small-cap managers underperformed the S&P Small-Cap Index. When

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

If all the economists in this country were laid end to end, they would never reach a conclusion.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than any other method. But who has ever claimed that psychoanalysis should be used always and everywhere?

If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

You know you're a skydiver when you analyze every flag you see in terms of it's too windy or it's not too windy to jump.

Biblical exegesis without controls is apt to run away into total subjectivity.

Perhaps we will not only improve our understanding and analysis but we might also learn better ways to be human, better ways to live in the world. If we do not hope for something like that it seems to me that we ought not to be taking up so much of other people's time with our questions and our stories (G. Harvey 2011b).

The job of economic theorists is to prove theorems. The job of policy economists is to figure out which theorems to apply.

That's the thing about poker. You're not playing your hand. You're playing the other guy's hand.

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Scientists make these deductions by examining a rat, or your landlord who won't cut the rent, and what do they find? Asparagus.

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

Pep had analysed Real Madrid in detail and, an hour and a half before the game, he got Messi, Xavi and Iniesta together: 'You three against Lass and Gago have got the game. If you do it right, three against two, we've beaten them.' Lass and Gago were going to find a third man to defend, Messi would position himself as a false striker in between the centre backs and those two.

The same amount of time and study was dedicated to trying to find the weaknesses and Achilles heels of every opponent, no matter how poor or strong that team was perceived to be by the outside world.

where his side could gain the upper hand in two v ones; endlessly replaying the key battles.

I saw Guardiola as a mystical type of person. The way he dressed – always in black – he was sometimes very quiet, constantly analysing things, thinking things over: why we won, why we lost, why he'd lost the ball. Sometimes his obsessiveness was excessive.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

At the present day, as the result of discussion and analysis, all opinions are losing their prestige; their distinctive features are rapidly worn away, and few survive capable of arousing our enthusiasm. The man of modern times is more and more a prey to indifference.

It is as interesting to decipher the motives of the actions of men as to determine the characteristics of a mineral or a plant.