Quotes About Analysis

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.

Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

Reductionism is merciless.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.