Quotes About Analysis

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

Science is the art of the solvable.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

If you feel that the thrill is long gone out of your leadership position, I guarantee if you will commit yourself to identifying and developing the strengths in your people, you'll experience a resurgence of excitement in your career. It will require you to really observe, analyze, and study each team member's habits, actions, and responses to critical situations. It's a quest that will help you continue to discover new strengths in individuals, including your kids.

I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar: ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more...

I don't," he said, "and that's a fact. I just can't size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?" "A blonde.

He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.

Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.

of research

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data," Delaney said.

Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data

Kling's point is that no matter what language we speak, we should use slow thinking, not fast thinking. Citing Daniel Kahneman's bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kling argues that we go wrong in political discourse when we hear a fact in isolation and jump to conclusions without considering its context. He encourages us to consider political problems slowly and logically instead—much like Elder did in our 2016 interview.

What's the assumption here? Before any evaluation of what's a good idea can be trusted, the purpose must be clear, the vision must be well defined, and all the relevant data must have been collected (brainstormed) and analyzed (organized).

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.

fifteen major intelligence agencies eating up 50 billion in budget dollars a year spread over 120,000 employees

He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.