Quotes About Analysis

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

What I learned in school made me a better journalist and a better writer because forensic science is, as scientific disciplines must be, about critical thinking and objective analysis.

Analysts have forgotten how to analyze business and they have forgotten how to be objective about them.

I am very observant of people's character.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.

At No 3 you have to take a bit more time to find your feet, but at No 5 you take much less time to get adjusted because you have already observed your openers, the No 3 and No 4 batsmen and you get a fair idea of how the wicket is playing.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.