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“I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.”

“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.”

Firsts Book Born Study Creating Criticism Died Theater International Landscape Corporate Analysis Texas Biographies Comprehensive Combining

Author:Alvin Ailey

“A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.”

Individual Support Arms Bears Analysis Amendments Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms

Author:Samuel Ray Cummings

“Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.”

People Feelings Choices Seeing Tools Analysis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.”

Matter Fighting Results Acceptance Humility Praise Thanks Analysis Opponents Mma Bows

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.”

Thinking Comedy Emotional Intellectual Logic Pursuit Analysis

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.”

Philosophy Lasts Party Behinds Class Struggle Failing Modern Criticism Tendencies Ideology Analysis Modern Society Scholasticism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.”

Helping Use Choices Given Quality Majors Vote Determine Reputation Analysis Links Engines Google Editorials Search Engine

Author:Matt Cutts

“Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.”

Analysis Paralysis

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking”

Thinking Starting Critical Analysis Strategic Starting Point Strategic Thinking

Book:The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

Source: The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.”

World Long Suffering Term Imagination Views Powerful Imagine Blind Profound Clouds Passing Passings Permanent Analysis Long Term Conventional

Book:The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).”

Lasts Jew Genuine Analysis Apostles Virginity Spinsters Dilettantes

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!”

World Mind Body Turns Church Study Materials Fairs Analysis Halls Leisure Examination Material World

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.”

Littles Self Seems Happens Technology Magic Things Happen Command Consumers Analysis Closest Buttons Fired Up Self Analysis

Author:David Pogue

“Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.”

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Author:William John Locke

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

Needs Trying Doe Situation Practice Cases Team Information Evidence Management Available Familiar Managers Analysis Plus Overwhelming Recommendations

Author:C. West Churchman

“I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story.”

Should War Stories Would Be My Own Lord Tree Details Finished Rings Certainty Analysis Explanation Horizon Occupation Short Story

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.”

World Majors Oil Analysis Fascinating Peter Reminders Turning Points

Author:Gwyn Morgan

“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”

“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.”

Ifs Men Humans Doe Human Nature Negative Oneself Contrary Self Worth Contemporary Permanent Analysis Greek Rebellion Rebel Suspicion

Author:Albert Camus

“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.”

“A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.”

Ifs Art Enough Problem Lasts Mystery Industry Rewards Leaving Analysis

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.”

“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.”

“My analyses and conclusions differ diametrically from those of the Southern Research Institute/National Cancer Institute report wherein it is concluded that amygdalin 'does not possess activity in the Lewis lung carcinoma system.'. My analysis of the data is that it is overwhelmingly positive.”

Doe Activity Research Cancer Conclusion Data Analysis Reports Southern Lungs Institute

Author:Dean Burk

“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.”

May Economic Theory Development Method Observation Defined Analysis Related Appropriate Inference Econometrics

Author:Paul Samuelson

“It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.”

People World Should Doe Two Different Done Jobs Order Class Design Separation Planning Rhythm Analysis Divided Pace Different Peoples Doers Planners

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted. But, after all, if there is nothing unreal, how, it may be asked, could we admit anything unreal? The reply is that, in dealing with propositions, we are dealing in the first instance with symbols, and if we attribute significance to groups of symbols which have no significance, we shall fall into the error of admitting unrealities, in the only sense in which this is possible, namely, as objects described.”

Ifs Firsts May Feelings Reality Fall Groups Objects Errors Instance Symbols Obedience Analysis Significance Attributes Propositions Unreal Admitting Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.”

Source: The Thinking Reed

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

Character Lasts Integrity Capacity Function Productions Analysis Enjoyment

Author:Stephen Covey

“The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.”

World May Ideas Christian Left Behinds Modern Grew Intellectual Understood Europe Accidents Analysis Modern Science

Author:Freeman Dyson

“There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.”

Ifs Years Philosophy Universe Names Exercise Philosophical Mere Finals Intellect Doctrine Useless Analysis Description Passages Chapters Paragraph Plausible

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be.”

Has Beens Problem Worry Despair Anxiety Majors Complexes Relate Analysis Melancholy Pessimism Inheritance Psychiatry Major Problems

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“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.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“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.”

World Kind Politics Events Politician Analysis Quantity Probability Casual Calculations Good Politicians

Author:John Arbuthnot

“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”

Art Easy Deals Practice Study Painting Tasks Intelligence Analysis Practice Makes Perfect Easy Tasks

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

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

Helping Action Memories Patient Analysis Unconscious

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.”

Dream Might Fantasy Absurd Analysis Our Dreams Illumination Untrue Inconsistent Abracadabra

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.”

Mind Two Facts Problem Turns Cases Information Example Theory Fundamentals Analysis Related Engines Efficient Engineering Engineers Thermodynamics Shannon

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.”

Ifs Character Individual Successful Battle Solutions Understood Tendencies Analysis Progressive Neurosis

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.”

“Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.”

“All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.”

Men Problem Lasts Turns Stuff Oneself Lovely Analysis Islands Load Crap Donne

Author:Kenneth Williams

“Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has contributed significantly to the problems. The design team or installers did not pay sufficient attention to the needs of those who would be using the equipment, so confusion or error was almost unavoidable.”

Needs Humans Shows Problem Would Be Pay Attention Situation Team Design Serious Errors Careful Accidents Confusion Analysis Sufficient Equipment Installation Human Error

Author:Donald A. Norman

“No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.”

Amount Lonely Corners Woods Reform Analysis Thrill Chimneys

Book:Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.”

Men Mind Real Eye Easy He Man Analysis Open Mind Detectives Deductions Open Eyes Detective Work

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“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?”

Should Doe Levels Theory Reflection Concepts Fundamentals Analysis Surprising Measurement Appearing Fuzzy

Author:John Stewart Bell

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

Tests Analysis Chemicals Deities

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms”

Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

“Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.”

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays