Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noah Baumbach

It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.

The appointment of regional CFOs is a natural step in the regionalization process we announced last November. Under John's leadership, this will create a very strong finance team that will improve our finance systems and analytical capabilities. Additionally, each of these regional CFOs possesses significant automotive retail experience and will be located with our regional vice presidents. This will enable them to support our regional vice presidents in standardizing and unifying our key operating processes, improving our cost structure and our overall efficiency levels.

Ndamukong Suh

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

Xavier Niel

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

Barry Alvarez

Joe is really an analytical guy. He does all the little things. It's really important to him. It's fun to have someone like him.

Barry Alvarez

Joe is an analytical guy. He is very bright kid. Joe will study the angle he has to take to get to a linebacker. He tries to do all the little things.

Johnathon Schaech

It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative side. That the creative side can be pushed aside and we just push the analytical side. Especially with the development of a child's brain at the elementary levels.

From an analytical perspective you're thinking '2 percent sucks,' ... But it's like the pink elephant in the room. Everyone knows it's there.

Edward Tufte

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

Amartya Sen

The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

Edward Sapir

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

Jerry is a strategic and analytical thinker who could be the chairman to pull GM out of this crisis.

Our overall philosophy at OLN is going to be to educate the viewer, personalize the players. We're going to try to tell the players' stories in more depth than you've ever seen before. I really think that's going to give our viewers all the more reason to root for and relate to them. Stats and analytical breakdowns won't be stressed as much as will be the storytelling.

Hans Rosling

The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

Andre Previn

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Collis Potter Huntington

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.

We were unable to replace that work in the quarter. The work postponed in the analytical lab has been completed in the current quarter. We see a very bright future. We have a lot of bookings.

At least one major materials and manufacturing company in the United States we spoke to has already begun outsourcing analytical services to a research center in India. When we spoke to users about the expense of owning and maintaining inspection tools, the biggest expense is the fact you need to hire and pay a highly trained scientist to successfully operate it, and there's big opportunity there for outsourcing.

As social scientists, our job is to provide an analytical approach that asks better questions to help people make wiser choices.

Pat Roberts

I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, or if they were intimidated or if they were coerced, that they can come to us, ... Face the Nation.

Daryl Morey

The reason that opportunity exists is because the ownership groups buying teams are very different than in the past. The franchise is their primary asset, and they come from backgrounds with an analytical focus such as venture capital, private equity, and management consulting. In the past, sports franchises were secondary assets in the portfolio of individuals who made their money in industrial-based businesses.

Judith Anderson

This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.

We asked a very simple question, but the experiments were not only very time-consuming but also required careful attention to analytical detail. And she got it done.

People are taking a much harder analytical look at these stocks and are deciding that there are better places to make money.

Jim Lovell

Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.

As one of his aides once said, he has antifreeze in his blood... He is a very cool character, and when you judge him by his public performances you would think that everything is hunky-dory and going great. But an analytical assessment of the situation shows he is in trouble, despite the brave face that he's putting on.

A lack of analytical skills could keep you from making progress in your career, and could hurt you as a citizen deciding who to vote for and which policies to support.

They're thinking. They're getting more analytical of the game. It's not whip the ball down field and chase after it. There's a thought process to what they're trying to do.

There isn't anyone, to my knowledge, who looks beyond ... the auto-theft rates. There's no scientific or analytical review of this data.

Mel Kiper

I decided in my junior year that there was a market for this type of thing. I love the analytical and scouting aspect of it. Back in those days before full-fledged free agency, the draft was the only way a team could improve from one year to the next.

Ruchi Sanghvi

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps.

Early in the morning before school started he would have high school seniors come in to the trading floor and play cards with him, ... poker, bridge -- any sort of game where there's a strategy involved, the way that was remembering the cards, where he could watch people's minds and see how they thought and see how analytical they were. And those who were good players got hired as traders.

The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.