Quotes About Analysis

what the play is about Supertask Break the play down into its component parts Bits Decide what each actor has to do in each of the component parts, what does he want or need Tasks Decide on what he does to fulfil that need Actions Check whether the sequence of needs and actions is logical and coherent and

Rice assumed her duty was to translate Bush's instincts and intuition into policy. Instincts and intuition are a poor substitute for reasoned analysis. [...] "He was feeling his way," said Cheney.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Hanging out is good historical methodology.

It was a writers' curse, this verbal embroidery. Never seeing anything as it was, always analyzing and reformulating it. Maybe the entire habit of observation, the thing he trained himself in, was just a nervous tic, a compulsion.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

El enfoque económico es el del «individualismo metodológico», según el cual los fenómenos colectivos son resultado de comportamientos individuales y, a su vez, afectan a estos últimos.

The contrast between economics and medicine is striking:

In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.

le fait religieux peut être analysé comme un antidote à la violence. La nouveauté de la pensée de cet auteur lui a valu de devoir se réfugier, comme d'autres spécialistes français des sciences humaines – Paul Ricœur et Michel Serres, par exemple – aux États-Unis pour poursuivre ses recherches, ces sciences étant alors en France exclusivement construites autour du marxisme, du freudisme et du structuralisme.

He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same. He had to relate every detail, interpreting and seeking meaning in her every utterance or action, like a fundamentalist minutely analyzing a biblical text.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.

Rob was always trying to get inside these people, figure them out, learn their problems, provide solutions.

If you're not cutting away more ideas than you keep, you're probably not doing discovery work right.

Now, if you don't mind, we're going to get some hair samples, tissue samples, saliva samples, fingernail samples, urine samples, and stool samples." "Would you like a booger, too?" "Actually, yes, let's get a mucus sample while we're at it.

It did not care about your belief system, your grasp on reality, the excellence of your analysis or your senses, for the anti-story of the story-creature became story by retelling effortlessly what lived at the core of you.

The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse." A sentence the biologist had excised from her thesis, but one that had burned bright in her mind, and now in Ghost Bird's, where, even analyzed and kept at arm's length like all received memories, it had a kind of power.

If there is a problem somewhere," he said with his dry chuckle, "this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person—only one—will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it.

If there is a problem somewhere... this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person -- only one -- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it... [W]hich person are you? -Fr. Longère

Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.

I like people who live in the world of data, even if they're sometimes a little, um, unusual.

Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.