#analysis

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#else #existence #fails #find #finding

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. ↗

— David Miliband

#before #empathy #establishes #getting #good

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bad #best #best man #even #evil

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

#career #challenging #economics #fascinating #i

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. ↗

— Ted Rall

#analysis #away #direct #i #like

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#business #itself #judicious #last #reduces

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#analysis #any #brussels #difference #does

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. ↗

— Paul Klee

#better #dimensions #drawing #execution #final

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#analysis #crisis #device #field #generally

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.' ↗

— David Schwimmer

#benefit #certain #change #constantly #cost