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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• There's a huge crowd out there that basically will go nuts recommending to every coach on the planet, "Hey, coach, I've been playing with the analytics. I think you should do X, Y, and Z."

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Nuts, Hey

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

  Antoni Tapies

  Attitude, Law, Attention

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

  John Tukey

  Play, Statistics, Backyards

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• There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Organization, Two, People

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

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• The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

  John Tukey

  Data, Desire, Body

  "Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.

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• Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

  Karl Popper

  Truth, Principles, Logical

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.5, Routledge

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• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

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• One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.

  Ernest Sosa

  Risk, May, Littles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you need help identifying actionable analytics check out this post.

  Mark Twain

  Needs, Helping, Checks

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• Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

  Agnes Repplier

  Responsibility, Vices, Half

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• The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is

  Bertrand Russell

  Taken, Imagination, Alternatives

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.6, Routledge

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Sex, Stupid, Two

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.

  Julie Mehretu

  Space, Political, Understanding

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• My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Hate, Mind

  Melanie Klein (1975). “The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works”

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• Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

  John P. Kotter

  Drama, Ideas, Brain

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• This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Essence

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• Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.

  Max McKeown

  Art, War, Creative

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• He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Healing, Goal

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• "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. The scientific mind of Franklin drew on the scientific determinism of Isaac Newton and the analytic empiricism of David Hume and Gottfried Leibniz. In what became known as "Hume's Fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Independence, Mind

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• The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

  Matthew Humphreys

  Data, Design, Creative

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• I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

  Brian May

  Trying, Firsts, Study

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• Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Passion, Understanding, Mind

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• An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

  Betty Edwards

  Drawing, Ordinary, Different

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