Analysing Quotes

• It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Needs, Action

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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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• 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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• Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  Barry Cryer

  Funny, Laughter, Laughing

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• We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Charity, Practicals, Conception

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

  Gary Chapman

  Problem, Inspirational Marriage, Forget

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.41, Moody Publishers

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• The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Ideas, Intellectual, World

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• In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  History, Profound, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.260, Harvard University Press

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Essence

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• I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

  James Black

  Passion, Progress, Tissues

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• How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Space, Long

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• Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

  Antony Hewish

  Team, Sky, Paper

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• We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

  Chester Bowles

  Dining, World, Ambassadors

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• As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Winning, Night

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Training, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

  Alexander Kotov

  Tree, Analysis, Variation

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• The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

  Alain de Botton

  Philosophy, Writing, Sadness

  "Alain de Botton: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Thinking, Games, Psychology

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• No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Thinking, Mind

  "Terry Pratchett: 'I'm open to joy. But I'm also more cynical'" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

  Jim Broadbent

  Acting, Sound, Ridiculous

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Energy, Chance, Increase

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• At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and, at the right moment, communicate it to him. Psychoanalysis was then first and foremost an art of interpreting. Since this did not solve the therapeutic problem, a further aim quickly came in view: to oblige the patient to confirm the analyst's construction from his own memory.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Memories, Views

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• Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Past, Imagining The Future, Important

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• I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.

  Dylan Moran

  People, Trying, Fine

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