Quotes About Analysis

The more one tries to analyze oneself the more one is conscious of amazing paradoxes and inconsistencies which lurk under the simplest surface.

with Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do.

But I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do.

The state medical examiner completed an analysis of the jawbone and concluded that it came from a possum. This was given to the press.

They were lawyers, trained to argue five sides of every issue.

After hanging around for three days, David could tell that the ADG team was not pleased with their testing.

What his parents needed was another kid or two, somebody else around the house to observe and analyze.

While the world lasts, will Aristotle's doctrine on these matters last, for he is the oracle of nature and of truth. While we are men, we cannot help, to a great extent, being Aristotelians, for the great Master does but analyze the thoughts, feelings, views, and opinions of human kind.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS!

The last of a train of psychiatrists would claim to have rehabilitated her, but Pooh Percy may simply have emerged from analysis—and a number of institutions—too thoroughly bored with rehabilitation to be violent anymore.

The destruction of art by sociology and psychoanalysis," he called it.

Figure 1: The incidence of banking crises Source: Own calculations, based on the reported numbers of major bank failures in OECD economies, from Reinhart and Rogoff (2010)

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century.

Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.

And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.

And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

Indeed, methodology matters more than anything else.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...