Quotes About Analysis

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

There is no rule for market segmentation or market targeting. Do so in a way that makes sense for your environment. Do so in a manner that gives you the best information for your decision making needs.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

When the powerful wisdom that understands the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear. Beyond the ego—the agitated, uncontrolled mind—lie everlasting peace and satisfaction. That's why Lord Buddha prescribed penetrative analysis of both your positive and your negative sides. In particular, when your negative mind arises, instead of being afraid, you should examine it more closely.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

I won't say if nerd is the right term, but I'm a big, big cricket fanatic. I just cannot stop thinking, talking cricket. I do carry notebooks and make notes to look at improving and developing my own game.

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.

A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.