Quotes about Analysis

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.

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.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

Practice is standing in the flow, whereas theory and analysis observe the flow from a position of separation.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.