Quotes About Analysis

The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure;

I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

Along the same lines, it is indispensable to analyze the contents of newspaper editorials following any given event: "Why do different newspapers have such different interpretations of the same fact?" This practice helps develop a sense of criticism, so that people will react to newspapers or news broadcasts not as passive objects of the "communiqués" directed at them, but rather as consciousnesses seeking to be free.

The radical is never a subjectivist. For this individual the subjective aspect exists only in relation to the objective aspect (the concrete reality, which is the object of analysis). Subjectivity and objectivity thus join in a dialectical unity producing knowledge in solidarity with action, and vice versa.

Let me reemphasize that posing reality as a problem does not mean sloganizing: it means critical analysis of a problematic reality.

A book isn't rigorous if students aren't reading it.

80/20 applies to almost everything in business that you can count. â–· Almost every frustration you have in sales has something to do with ignoring 80/20.

Everything you do inside an AdWords account is a little science experiment.

Sometimes," he said, "you've got to watch people a long time to see who they are.

A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

In 'A Scandal in Bohemia', he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.

Cognitive psychologists have confirmed what we already knew: that readers of complex novels show a greater capacity for understanding the complexities of human interaction.8

Notwithstanding the pitfalls of standardized testing, what we really ought to ask is how to do better at building knowledge and creativity, for without knowledge you don't have the foundation for the higher-level skills of analysis, synthesis, and creative problem solving. As the psychologist Robert Sternberg and two colleagues put it, "one cannot apply what one knows in a practical manner if one does not know anything to apply."12

all that really matters to me is that there are critics.

You can't manage what you can't measure.

You are so much smarter than me, aren't you?" "No. I just think things through quicker, that's all." "If that's not a definition of smart, I don't know what is.

Peter G. Tsouras

With an influx of sensory information comes a need for complex internal processing. When more is known, decisions become more complicated.

She looked at him. As if she wanted to determine his molecular weight.

Scientists are like terriers, trained to chase down and pick apart reasoning that is not rigorous.

Glancing at his notes

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.