Analysis Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Believe, Data, Freak

  "Is the Freedom of Information Act a good thing?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, History, Finals

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.289, Vintage

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• In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Order

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

  Gottlob Frege

  Philosophy, Science, Half

  Attributed in "Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period" by A. A. B. Aspeitia, Indiana University, (p. 25), 2000.

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• In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Perfect, Political, Immigration

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• Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.

  Bruce Kovner

  Doctors, Physicians, Attention

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

  Orrin Woodward

  Paralysis

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2017

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• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Paralysis

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• In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

  Jimmy Carter

  Respect, Book, Commitment

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, World, Situation

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

  Anita Brookner

  Art, Self, Interesting

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• Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Fall, Divine Wisdom, Trying

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• The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

  Tony Benn

  Jesus, Russia, Spain

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• People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

  John P. Kotter

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.14, Harvard Business Press

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

  Yann Martel

  Self, Sloth, Three

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Shoes, New Ventures

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

  William Empson

  Maintaining, Contradiction, Oneself

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Errors, Use

  "The bright side of chess". Book by Irving Chernev (p. 114), 1952.

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• Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

  David Miliband

  Empathy, Vision, Policy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

  Edward Greenspon

  Accountability, Democracy, Information

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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