Analysis Quotes - Page 22

• If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Personality, Doubt, Brain

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Events, Able

  Source: chomsky.info

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• There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Military, Should Have

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.

  Colin Powell

  Army, Firsts, Taught

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

  Colin Powell

  Running, Decision, Way

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And when we affirm this judgment, we're not merely saying that all those people who owned slaves were unethical people; they shouldn't have done that. We do believe this, but that's only part of the point. We also believe that the fugitive slave laws were unjust.

  Thomas Pogge

  Believe, Law, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Jobs, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.

  Al Gore

  Powerful, Independent, Trying

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 14, 2017.

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• Many great ideas need refreshment and deeper analysis. "Freedom," for example, is a great idea but it has become a cliché.

  Philip Kotler

  Ideas, Needs, Example

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spring, Optimism, People

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• When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

  Jimmy Carter

  Writing, Self, Expression

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, School, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Mistake, Choices, Execution

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.

  Ali Velshi

  Thinking, America, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothing could fill me up except myself. So I went into analysis. I went to see a doctor, to talk about my lack of self-esteem. I don't know how to say it better: my lack of self-esteem, my insecurity, and how these things were not going to fill me up. And I'd better fix myself and then find out what I liked. For me, therapy was the greatest gift I could ever give myself. There's nothing I could have done for myself that would've been better.

  Sherry Lansing

  Self Esteem, Fall, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Example, Different

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

  Karl Abraham

  Psychosis, Neurosis, Firsts

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

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• Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

  Eric Alterman

  Stars, Editors, News

  "Eric Alterman: Pay Anchors Like Journalists Instead Of Hedge Fund Managers" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2010.

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• 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

  Peace, Army, Lasts

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

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• The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Freedom, Blessing, Discipline

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1960). “Baruch: The Public Years”

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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  Gary Becker

  Yield, Interesting, Systematic

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• I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

  Russell Brand

  People, Would Be, Elements

  "Russell Brand: This charming man". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• 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

  Years, Needs, Cia

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• Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

  David Byrne

  Want, Lobotomy, Edges

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• I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

  Herman Cain

  Kings, Moving, Careers

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