Alexandra Daddario Quotes

I think like a detective.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

You know my methods. Apply them.

"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.