Analysis Quotes

• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Trying

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Past, Honest, Acceptable

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, Lasts

  "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness‎". Book by Stephen Covey, November 2004.

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Spontaneity

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

  Albert Camus

  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Data

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Happy, Pulse

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mind, Synthesis, Habit

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

  Colin Powell

  Decision, Way, Ingredients

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Believe, Forecasting, I Believe

  Nicolas Darvas (1986). “How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market”, Citadel Press

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• There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Syndromes, Paralysis

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Too Much

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin

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• To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

  Donald A. Norman

  Sweet, Errors, Improvement

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• Analysis kills spontaneity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Literature, Entertainment

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

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• Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Expression, Criticism, Needs

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• Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Book, Educator

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• Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Acceptance, Meditation, Demand

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 13, 2013

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Pythagorean Theorem, Mathematics

  "Statistics in agricultural research". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1934.

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