Analytical Skill Quotes

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.

It is my job to know the difference between information and intelligence.

You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.

I was particularly good at math and science.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.