#analysis

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

#analysis #applying #big #could #defence

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it. ↗

— Bette Davis

#almost #analysis #decided #go #i

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#fifty #good #obscure #years

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts. ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#all americans #analysis #based #duty #elected

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#bone #closer #cuts #err #establishing

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#freud #had #mother #psychoanalysis

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#answers #conception #death #decides #last

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement. ↗

— Donald Norman

#error #improvement #me #spot #sweet