Quotes About Analysis

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

Data is the new oil.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

When I see a play one time, I've got it. When I see it twice, I master it. When I see it three times, I know where the loopholes are.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

I love CeeDee Lamb coming out of the draft. I just really did. And Amari Cooper is one of the best one-on-one route runners.

I feel, it is essential to see oneself on-screen so as to be a better judge of one's performance.

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you're opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you're watching it until you finally fall asleep.

If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us.  Men can be analysed, women . . . merely adored.

Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.