Quotes About Analysis

There are two kinds of observers in science: splitters and lumpers. I've never been much of a splitter; in my heart of hearts, I'm a lumper.) In

But before you can tell who someone was and how they died—and you won't always be able to tell—you start with the Big Four: sex, race, age, and stature. Whenever

Another historian, Molly Greene, wearily describes the decline thesis as a meat-grinder, which converts all the facts into the homogenised elements of a single story rather than the distinct indicators of many different stories.

the ability of the person to figure things out, to learn, to think critically and solve problems is more important.

The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities that make it precious and by indicating the angle of visions from which its beauties are visible. But many critics do not realize their function. They aim not to appreciate, but to judge; they seek first to draw lines about literature and then bully readers into accepting these laws.

no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.

the basic rules of serious futurology are (a) look for the large trends and analyze how they work, (b) construct models to suggest how different trends may interact, and (c) be alert for countertrends or other factors that might falsify or cut across the predictions suggested by long trends and simple modeling.

The initial letter in the profile means either introversion or extroversion. -The second letter in the mix will end up being either be the letter "S" to stand for sensing or the letter "N" for intuition. -Next, the third letter is either an "F" to stand for feeler or the letter "T" to stand for thinker. -Finally, the fourth letter is either a "P" to stand for perceiver or "J" for judger.

Accounting is your primary information system for making decisions, so if that information is bad, your decisions will be bad too.

Faced with the sentence therapistsneedspecialtreatment we need to know if this is a text about sex crimes or about speech pathology before we can correctly read it aloud.

used to put movies down by saying that they were 'deep on the surface' --meaning that there was nothing underneath.

Rejecting authority in regard to knowledge was not just a matter of abstract analysis. It was a necessary condition for progress, because, before the Enlightenment, it was generally believed that everything important that was knowable had already been discovered, and was enshrined in authoritative sources such as ancient writings and traditional assumptions. Some of those sources did contain some genuine knowledge, but it was entrenched in the form of dogmas along with many falsehoods

Editors and agents have an uncanny ability to zero in on the very thing you knew—but didn't want to admit—was wrong with your proposal or manuscript.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis, over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

Au début d'une relation, on pourrait presque analyser chaque baiser. Tout se détache parfaitement dans une mémoire qui lentement progresse dans la confusion de la répétition.

Bueno, comprendo: usted no habla. Es raro, habría jurado lo contrario. Tiene pinta de tener sus teorías. Quizás me las cuente después, ¿es así? Me hará una síntesis. Si tenemos tiempo. Con lo que yo he vivido, necesitaríamos por lo menos un siglo para este análisis. Un siglo incluyendo los días feriados.

No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman

The Right, at least, has a critique of bureaucracy. It's not a very good one. But at least it exists. The Left has none. As a result, when those who identify with the Left do have anything negative to say about bureaucracy, they are usually forced to adopt a watered-down version of the right-wing critique.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin 's works for numbers and equations.

Jung is quick to point out that the only [such death and rebirth] "initiation process" that is still alive and practiced today in the West is the analysis of the unconscious as used by doctors for therapeutic purposes.78

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.