Quotes About Analysis

Daily Law: Examine the faults you see in others and how they are in you as well.

It can be valuable to analyze what went wrong in the past, but it is far more important to develop the capacity to think in the moment. In that way you will make far fewer mistakes to analyze.

short, the preconference is intended to set the stage for what will be the focus of the comprehensive observation.

The first step to creating something was to figure out its parts. Master Luhhan had taught Perrin that on his first day at the forge. You couldn't make a spade without understanding how the handle fit to the blade. You couldn't make a hinge without knowing how the two leaves moved with the pin. You couldn't even make a nail without knowing its parts: head, shaft, point. Understand the pieces, Perrin.

In accounting', rich dad would say, 'It's not the numbers , but what the numbers are telling you. It's just like words. It's not the words, but the story the words are telling you.

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be.

The information in the folder did not constitute proof, only data that could or could not bolster the conjectures he had made.

I look at an objective,' answered Vasili, 'and I do my best to analyse the problems inherent in reaching it.

An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.3

An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge

The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad scriptwriter. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.

1) statement of the problem, (2) hypotheses as to the cause of the problem, (3) experiments designed to test each hypothesis, (4) predicted results of the experiments, (5) observed results of the experiments and (6) conclusions from the results of the experiments.

You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.

It's an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it's done and the talk about how it's done never seems to match how one does it. DeWeese

I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was.

when you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

Ooh, we're going to think subtly. We won't get suckered into simplistic answers, not like those chicken-crossing-the-road neurochemists and chicken evolutionary biologists and chicken psychoanalysts, all living in their own limited categorical buckets.

The standard, convincing explanation for the link is that RWA provides simple answers, ideal for people with poor abstract reasoning skills.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

So whenever I hear people focusing on their I-don't-wants, rather than what they do want, I know the noise in their head must be loud. Chicken Little has taken over their brain and is yelling, "The sky is falling, and toilets are breaking!" So they avoid their don't-wants, but they pay a huge price. They may never get what they want in life. Instead of analyzing, their inner Chicken Little closes their mind.

I talk about freedom from the Rat Race, and they focus on toilets. That is the thought pattern that keeps most people poor. They criticize instead of analyze.

you should analyze 100 properties, make offers on ten of them, have three sellers say yes, and then buy one.

Shopping, asking questions, and analyzing deals is how I got my education.