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Quotes About Analysis

may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes
~ William Poundstone
Look here upon this picture, and on this...
~ William Shakespeare
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
~ Winston Churchill
Although general staffs present the results of their labours in simple and precise assertions, these are no sure foundations upon which to make intricate plans depending upon a few days or a few divisions one way or another.
~ Winston S. Churchill
I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
~ Woody Allen
Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.
~ Woody Allen
El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -Señor Kugelmass, lo peor que puede usted hacer es ignorar la realidad. Limítese a declarar aquí sus pensamientos, y los dos juntos lo analizaremos. Ya lleva usted en tratamiento un tiempo suficiente como para saber que nadie se cura de la noche a la mañana. Después de todo, yo soy analista, no mago. -Entonces lo que necesito quizás es un mago -exclamó Kugelmass, levantándose. Y con eso dio por terminada su terapia.
~ Woody Allen
When asked if Mia Farrow's character Hanna in Hannah and her sisters was a good sister or bad sister) SB: And now , in retrospect, have you made up your mind yet? WA: Well, in retrospect, I think she's not so nice. If you look closely, she's not as nice as you imagine.
~ Woody Allen
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~ Woody Allen
It was not until I entered psychoanalysis as a last resort to my unending misery that the nausea was diagnosed as psychological, and in no time after entering analysis, I became completely cured of the attacks. If couch psychoanalysis did nothing for me but that (and it didn't), it would have been worth it.
~ Woody Allen
When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?
~ Christopher McDougall
The Running Athlete, the definitive radiographic analysis of every conceivable running injury.
~ Christopher McDougall
We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
~ Claude Bernard
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
Experimentation is an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
~ Unknown
Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.
~ Claudio Magris
it gave me a new appreciation for objective appraisal
~ Unknown
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
~ Clifford Geertz
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people's constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
~ Clifford Geertz
All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.
~ Clifford Geertz
The strict separation of theory and data, the "brute fact" idea; the effort to create a formal vocabulary of analysis purged of all subjective reference, the "ideal language" idea; and the claim to moral neutrality and the Olympian view, the "Go?s truth" idea - none of these can prosper when explanation comes to be regarded as a matter of connecting action to its sense rather than behavior to its determinants.
~ Clifford Geertz
Believing with Max Weber that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.
~ Clifford Geertz