100+ Analysis Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.46

topic: Mind, Church, Analysis

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

- Francois Viete

source: François Viète, T. Richard Witmer (2006). “The Analytic Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Plato, Analysis, Way

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Mind, Analysis, Synthesis

Without analysis, no synthesis.

- Friedrich Engels

source: Friedrich Engels (1935). “Herr Eugen Dühring's revolution in science [anti-Dühring]”

topic: Analysis, Synthesis, Statistics

Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.

- Gary Becker

source: "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

topic: Training, Analysis, Cost, Monetary

We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein,

- Geoff Hoon

source: "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.

topic: Tape, Analysis, Hussein

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mad, Insanity, Analysis, This Crazy World, Madness And Sanity

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

- George Eliot

topic: Inspiration, Names, Analysis

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

- Georges Bataille

topic: Laughter, Emotional, Analysis

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

- Gilbert Murray

source: Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.12, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Thinking, Analysis, Sometimes

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

- Gottfried Leibniz

topic: Ideas, Words Of Wisdom, Analysis, Theorems

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

- Gwen Ifill

topic: Pbs, Depth, Analysis, Investigative Journalism, Frontline

The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification.

- Hans Reichenbach

topic: Discovery, Analysis, Looks, Thought Process

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy

- Hans Rosling

topic: Decision, Political, Analysis, Political Decisions

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

- Harvey Cox

source: "On Not Leaving It to the Snake". Book by Harvey Cox, 1967.

topic: Decision, Finals, Analysis

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

- Hedy Lamarr

source: Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

topic: Analysis, Puppets, Emotion, Great Freedom

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

topic: Luck, Analysis, Lasts

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

topic: Intuition, Analysis, Instinct

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Spring, Creativity, Analysis, Flour

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Science, Analysis, Scientific Method

Analysis kills spontaneity.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Life, Analysis, Spontaneity

I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration.

- Howard Pyle

topic: Inspiration, Illustration, Analysis, Criticise

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

- Irena Chalmers

topic: Analysis, Cucumbers, Lasts

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

- Ivan Pavlov

source: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1966). “Essential works”

topic: Men, Mind, Analysis

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

- J. I. Packer

topic: What Matters, Analysis, Lasts

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

- Jacques Derrida

topic: Thinking, Analysis, Fields, Deconstruction

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

- Jacques Ellul

topic: Secret, Analysis, Facts, Chosen By God

The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Illustration, Mind, Analysis, Rotation

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

- James J. Gibson

topic: Space, Analysis, World, Time And Space

Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Analysis, Tests, Deities

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

- James Sinegal

source: "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

topic: Finals, Analysis, Pay

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

- Jamie Dimon

topic: People, Together, Analysis, Financial System, Get Together

All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

- Janet Malcolm

topic: Ashes, Analysis, Mouths, Termination

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

- Jean Anouilh

source: L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120

topic: Peace, Army, Analysis

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Men, Errors, Analysis

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Doe, Analysis, Consciousness

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Salary, Finals, Analysis

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

- Jim DeMint

topic: Data, Firsts, Analysis

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

- Joan Didion

topic: Angel, Mind, Analysis

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

- Johannes V. Jensen

topic: Analysis, Evolution, Problem, Probing

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

- John Alexander Morrison

topic: Knowledge, Together, Analysis

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

- John Arbuthnot

topic: Events, Analysis, World, Good Politicians

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

- John Carroll

source: John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

topic: Objectivity, Analysis, Facts, Suppression

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

- John Christopher

topic: Choices, Mind, Analysis, Personal Choice

By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.

- John Gofman

topic: Epidemiology, Track, Analysis

Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

- John Henrik Clarke

topic: Responsibility, Finals, Analysis

As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.

- John Jacob Abel

source: John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”

topic: Animal, Analysis, Use, Scalpels

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

- John Katzman

topic: School, Technology, Analysis, Printing Press, Cost Benefit Analysis

Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis

- John Murphy

topic: Analysis, Fundamentals, Indicators

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

- John O. Brennan

topic: Years, Needs, Analysis

In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.

- John P. Kotter

topic: Change, Finals, Analysis

And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

- John S. Pistole

source: Senate hearing on TSA, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

topic: Trying, Finals, Analysis

The assertion fallacy ... is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

- John Searle

topic: Confusing, Analysis, Speech

The land is so much more than its analysis.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Land, Analysis

The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at the most fundamental level ... does not any analysis of measurement require concepts more fundamental than measurement? And should not the fundamental theory be about these more fundamental concepts?

- John Stewart Bell

source: "Quantum Gravity". Book by Dennis William Sciama, p. 611. "Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists", 1981.

topic: Reflection, Doe, Analysis, Appearing

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

- Jorge Valdano

topic: Soccer, Football, Analysis

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

source: Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

topic: Organization, Innovation, Analysis, Economic Development

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Real, Deep Life, Analysis, Real Deep, Follow Your Bliss

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

- Joshua Lederberg

topic: Powerful, Cells, Analysis

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

- Jurgen Klinsmann

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Needs, Analysis

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

- Justus von Liebig

topic: Simplicity, Analysis, Revolutionary

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

topic: Psychosis, Analysis, Neurosis

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

- Karl Haushofer

topic: Eye, Darkness, Analysis, Geopolitical

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

- Kate Smith

topic: Intelligent, Analysis, Adherence

Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.

- Kathe Kollwitz

source: Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr

topic: Finals, Analysis, Culture, Genuineness

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

- Katherine Cecil Thurston

source: Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.297, tredition

topic: Death, Analysis, Birth, Sacrilege

The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration of all the different items into a new pattern, using non-linear brain power

- Kenichi Ohmae

topic: Brain, Different, Analysis, Reintegration, Brain Power

Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking

- Kenichi Ohmae

source: Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Thinking, Analysis, Starting, Strategic Thinking

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.

- Kenneth E. Iverson

source: "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.

topic: Expression, Analysis, Tools

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

- Kenneth Lee Pike

topic: Analysis, Sample

Toward the end of his life, GÃ¶del feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt GÃ¶del's gifts might be aborted.

- Kurt Gödel

topic: Intellectual, Analysis, Might

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

- Kurt Goldstein

topic: Bravery, Finals, Analysis

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

- Lance Ito

topic: Cameras, Prejudice, Analysis, Courtroom

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

- Lancelot Law Whyte

topic: Views, Analysis, May

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

- Lawrence Summers

source: "Inside the Crisis" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.

topic: Children, Believe, Analysis, Systems Analysis

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

- Lawrence Venuti

topic: Play, Receiving, Analysis

I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

- Lee Myung-bak

topic: Thinking, Assessment, Analysis

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

- Leland Stanford

topic: Political, Mind, Analysis, Political Economy, Politics And Economics

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

- Leopold Kronecker

topic: Discovery, Doe, Analysis, Vary

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

- Leslie Fiedler

source: "Leslie Fiedler Dies at 85; Provocative Literary Critic" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2003.

topic: Tolerance, Analysis, Lows, Detached

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

- Lev Polugaevsky

topic: Player, Analysis, Chess

The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

- Linda Armstrong

topic: Assessment, Practice, Analysis, Summary

Euclid ... manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.

- Lucio Russo

topic: Numbers, Doe, Analysis

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Wish, Finals, Analysis, Factors Of Production

In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

- Mahbub ul Haq

source: Mahbub ul Haq, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India) (2001). “Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action”

topic: Children, Mean, Analysis

Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

- Mamie McCullough

topic: Self, Analysis, Action, Paralysis, Self Starter

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

- Maria Bartiromo

topic: Data, Example, Analysis, Level Playing Field

We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Dark, Light, Analysis

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

- Marjane Satrapi

topic: Fear, Reflection, Analysis, Repression

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

- Mark Burnett

topic: Analysis, Paralysis, Heard

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Sports, Analysis, Entertainment

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

- Mark Dvoretsky

source: Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

topic: Player, Chess, Analysis

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

- Mark Dvoretsky

source: Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

topic: Training, Chess, Analysis

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Mean, Finals, Analysis

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

- Mary Frances Berry

topic: Analysis, Action

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

- Mary Heaton Vorse

topic: Children, Civilization, Analysis

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

- Mary MacLane

source: Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press

topic: Self, Analysis, Constant, Involuntary, Self Analysis

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

- Max Weber

topic: Data, Age, Analysis

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

- Max Weber

topic: Analysis, Judgment, Explanation

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

- Michael Frost

topic: Kingdoms, Analysis, Neighbor

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA`s best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

- Michael Morell

source: "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2015.

topic: Jobs, President, Analysis

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

- Michael Palin

topic: Skills, World, Analysis, Geographers

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: Self, Analysis, Causes

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

- Mike Dirnt

topic: Use, Analyzing, Analysis

Chess is the art of analysis.

- Mikhail Botvinnik

source: Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Chess, Analysis

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

- Mikhail Botvinnik

topic: Analysis, Ease, Boards, Fischer

The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

- Mikhail Botvinnik

topic: Analysis, Movement, World, Acclaim

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Finals, Analysis, Frankness, Be Kind To Others, Be Kind To Yourself

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority

- Mu Xin

source: Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.

topic: Art, Shining, Analysis

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

- Natalie Wood

topic: Analysis, Transformation, Change Yourself

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

- Nate Silver

topic: Littles, Analysis, Strange

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

- Nate Silver

topic: Cartoon, Onions, Analysis, Memes, Outliers

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

- Nathan Shedroff

topic: Data, Analysis, Use, Qualitative

There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding from the special to the general and it is extremely peculiar that such a procedure has led to so few of the so-called paradoxes.

- Niels Henrik Abel

source: Letter to Professor Christoffer Hansteen (1826) "Oeuvres Complètes de N. H. Abel", mathematician, Nouvelle edition (1881) ed., Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow & Sophus Lie, Vol. 2, pp. 263-265, as quoted by Øystein Ore, "Niels Henrik Abel: Mathematician Extraordinary", p. 113, 1957.

topic: Special, Analysis, Way, Abel, Concluding

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

- Noah Baumbach

topic: Analysis, Way, Therapy

Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!

- Noga Alon

topic: Science, Israel, Analysis

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.

- Norman Doidge

source: Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.229, Penguin

topic: Memories, Analysis, Action, Explicit

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic. (229-230)

- Norman Doidge

topic: Memories, Needs, Analysis

Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

- Nouriel Roubini

topic: Reading, Growth, Analysis, Rapid Growth

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.

- Ordway Tead

source: Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 66, 1950.

topic: Common Sense, Survival, Analysis

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.

- Ordway Tead

topic: Effort, Lasts, Analysis

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

- Orrin Woodward

source: Twitter post from Jan 22, 2017

topic: Analysis, Paralysis

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Nature, People, Analysis

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

- Otto Rank

topic: Doe, Analysis, Technique, Didactic

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

- P.D. Ouspensky

topic: Art, Philosophy, Analysis, Religion And Art

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

- Parker J. Palmer

topic: Political, Analysis, Tools, Social Control, Rendering

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.

- Paul Halmos

source: "Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

topic: Knowledge, Analysis, Architecture, Interconnection, Topology

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Opposites, Analysis, Serious

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.

- Paul Samuelson

topic: Analysis, Politics, Fads, Cranky

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

- Paul Samuelson

source: "Report of the evaluative committee for Econometrica". Paper by Paul Samuelson, Tjalling Koopmans, and Richard Stone. Econometrica - journal of the Econometric Society, pp. 141-146, 1954.

topic: Development, May, Analysis, Econometrics, Inference

Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

- Paul Stamets

topic: Mushrooms, Analysis, Culture, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Companies

We do liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis only.

- Peter Cundill

topic: Analysis

Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Use, Development, Analysis

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin