Quotes About Analysis

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.

As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.