Quotes About Analysis

In June of 1944, when Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the German commander in France, was told that the Allies were landing in Normandy, he knew exactly what to do. He went out into the garden and pruned his roses. Von Rundstedt knew that in war, early reports, regardless of whether the news is good or bad, are usually misleading. Reacting to them with instant analysis merely makes the problem worse.

In planning a war, the most important task is to understand what can be planned and what cannot.

Never assume the obvious is true.

For I am nothing if not critical.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;Between two blades, which bears the better temper;Between two horses, which doth bear him best;Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;I have perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment;But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

it would be well worth your time to start keeping a codebook, listing all the objects, people, and situations that seem to recur in your Image Streams together with what you think they might mean

Politics is 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.

I was suicidal as a matter of fact and 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.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Scholars, notably Western scholars, are often more eager to gauge the extent to which...economic liberalization dismantles socialism and nurtures capitalism than analyze how socialism, a system created as an alternative to the lack of economic democracy in modern capitalism, is revitalized and, in its more decentred, de-essentialized, flexible forms, becomes an integral, constitutive part of the daily reality of Chinese economic, social, political, and cultural life.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be so difficult to understand and there'd be no need for mathematicians.

Organize your marketing team in this way: You want someone responsible for "getting found" (filling the top of your funnel), someone responsible for "converting" the folks who are getting pulled in, and someone responsible for "analyzing" the numbers and helping you make better decisions.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

It is usually assumed that marketers use scientific methods to determine the price of their products. Nothing could be further from the truth. In almost every case, the process of decision is one of guesswork.

Every day spent producing reports is a day less spent on analysis and projects." There

Age does not count. It's what you know about football that matters.

R0 = ?N/(? + b + v)

forecasts have to be based on the past, and

Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)

When I have a particular case in hand," he explained, "I . . . love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.