Quotes About Analysis

in situations where change is needed, too much analysis can doom the effort. The Rider will see too many problems and spend too much time sizing them up.

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.

LET'S SUM UP WHERE we are. If you think about a normal decision process, it usually proceeds in four steps: • You encounter a choice. • You analyze your options. • You make a choice. • Then you live with it. And what we've seen is that there is a villain that afflicts each of these stages: • You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options.

a technique called "failure mode and effect analysis" (FMEA), a precursor to the premortem that has been used for decades in the military and government.

Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field

Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

Using intuitive intelligence alone is not enough. The concept or ideas that have been internally gathered by intuitive intelligence must still be analyzed, scrutinized and validated by using mental intelligence and actual experimentation.

Selection at the level of groups of creatures with common traits requires an understanding of the interactions that occur within their ecosystem, and situations such as these cannot be interpreted solely in terms of individual selection or genetic cost-benefit analysis

Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.

Tried to assess the situation.

Stroll on. When the going gets tough, the postmodern analyst goes shopping.

Study's good, because it microcosms everything—if you understand everything within the walls of what you study you can identify other walls too, other areas of study. Everything's separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really. When there are no walls there is no study, only chaos. And so you break it down.

It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world. Accepting contradictions means not believing any more in the primacy of "true feeling." Everything is true and simultaneously. It's why I hate Sam Shepard and all your True West stuff - it's like analysis, as if the riddle could be solved by digging up the buried child.

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

Run faster" was an elegant strategy with only a single problem: by some key metrics, the U.S. wasn't running faster, it was losing ground. Hardly anyone in government bothered to do the analysis

Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!" Walter said brusquely.

Yes," Bell admitted. "I have no idea how it could have happened, when she wasn't even tripping." "Clearly she was the one who was foremost in your thoughts in that moment," Walter said. "Not that I blame you, given her apparent aversion to brassieres, but that's something for us to analyze later.

We can analyze what went wrong and discuss our own responsibility or lack thereof in private, but shouting that we are responsible out here, where that angry mob out front can hear us? That's a very bad idea.

À la différence de l'analyse, qui se contente de décomposer un ensemble en ses éléments constituants et de la critique qui ne fait que juger, la déconstruction est un démontage consistant à mettre à nu ce qui dans une pensée, un texte, en constitue le point aveugle, impensé - encore un terme issu de Heidegger.

Un écrivain, même habile, n'empêche pas un bon lecteur de lire entre les lignes.

Une institution présente ne peut être expliquée par le simple fait qu'elle a existé dans le passé, même si ce passé est récent. Je ne nie pas que certains éléments du patriarcat d'aujourd'hui ressemblent à des éléments du « patriarcat » d'il y a cent ans : simplement cette durée - si tant est qu'il y ait durée, c'est-à-dire qu'il s'agisse bien de la même chose - ne constitue pas en elle-même un facteur explicatif. (p. 18)

L'échec de ses tentatives est dû à ce qu'elles ont toutes accepté la prétention exorbitante de la psychanalyse d'être, non pas un système d'interprétation de la subjectivité, mais la subjectivité même [...] Sous couvert d'introduire le matérialisme dans la subjectivité, on introduisait en fait l'ennemi dans la place, l'idéalisme dans l'histoire.

During my many years of interviewing murderous psychopaths, I have noted all of them have over-inflated egos.