Quotes About Analysis

the brass and the bean counters look at the bottom line.

Ibíd., p. 59, el texto completo de la carta de hach Amin a Hitler, 20 enero 1941, se encuentra en el Apéndice B (pp. 202-5) del libro de Elpeleg.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Ben Graham gave us the same lesson: "In the short run the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine."51

understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another." Claude Levi-Strauss

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Based on these journal entries, it would appear that the main

It is possible to find within the limits of a stone's throw one Anglican divine who preaches practically the entire cycle of Catholic doctrine with the exception of that bearing upon the prerogative of Peter; another who denies in scarcely veiled language the Corporal Resurrection of Jesus Christ as well as His birth of a Virgin; another whose utterances are so calculated and obscure as to defy reasonable analysis.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Why was not important. That was not the way he approached his life. 'Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

L'analisi distrugge l'interezza. Ci sono cose, cose magiche, che devono restare intere. Se cominci a guardare le singole parti, svaniscono.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Here it is important to note that a basic rule in the interpretation of historical evidence is that any piece of evidence depends upon the context from which it is taken.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Ressler

terminal into compute mode, and made a quick calculation. "Seventy-seven microradians per second comes out to

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

True genius, Churchill taught us, resides in the capacity to evaluate conflicting information.

It was typical George Stout: detailed, timely, and understated. Here was a man that was never hurried. Who was careful. Punctual. Precise. An expert and a precisionist makes his analysis first, he always said, then his decision.

As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.