Quotes About Analysis

Critics are just what they are. They're going to pick at the positivity of things.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Picking up a tell - a hint that a player unknowingly gives that reveals the strength of his hand - often means the difference between winning and losing a big pot.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

If you ask a filmmaker to analyse his own film, it would take three or four years to do that, honestly. Because when you make a film, you have to be convinced about it. You are married to that film for a year.

You always have to look at every game and seek to correct mistakes.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

I had a whole bunch of things I knew I needed to work on from self-scouting. I knew on certain routes what I needed to do and ways to use my eyes and shoulders and manipulate coverage.

Most announcers play pattycake, pattycake with the players they're covering.

I'm covering the worst president in American history.

When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.

Now everyone is a critic.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I've always been a really hard critic of everything I do.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.