Quotes About Analysis

I don't think I would move into politics, but our job is often about pulling things down. It's about why something won't work, which I think is valuable, but it's not always constructive.

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysis of any underlying economic value. The economics of investments are not solely based on supply and demand, and that is all that goes into Bitcoin prices.

After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

with peach syrup, was still studying him carefully. Virginia

She thinks in wild gardens, and his thoughts are espaliered into an introduction with a thesis, then supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. She

Those who study just one country end up understanding no country.

One can't merely content oneself with identifying proximate causes; one also has to ask about ultimate causes.

explanation of causes

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate possible causes of failure.

Codebreakers train themselves to see more deeply.

Never dig so deep into the numbers that you check your common sense at the door, and always read the proxy statement before (and after) you buy a stock.

Marxism claims, above all, to be a 'scientific' philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.

But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop where it was purchased.

Egy magánkönyvtár a jellemanalízis kincsesbányája.

Don't analyze me. We've got a whole department of shrinks on the payroll for that.

Intelligence is analysing things as they are. Imagination is conceiving them as they could be. Morality is conceiving them as they should be. Magic is making them occur the way you conceive them. There is no longer any interest in the mental hygiene of killers. Today we have only the mental hygiene of the victim, and the art of using one's own misfortune as a credit card.

Thus arises the second tendency, which consists in regarding logical and mathematical relations as irreducible, and in making an analysis of the higher intellectual functions depend on an analysis of them. But it is questionable whether logic, regarded as something eluding the attempts of experimental psychology to explain it, can in its turn legitimately explain anything in psychological experience.

I warn the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am unable to make myself clear to those who refuse to be attentive.