Careful Analysis Quotes

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

It's OK to pursue speculative ideas because we don't want to be too cozy and safe and assume that we know everything about life in the universe. However, we have to be rigorous and careful and honest and logical and scientifically meticulous when we speculate.

I've never just said things recklessly without thinking about it or talking to people about it. I always go back to my people and talk to them about it.

We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

I would like to get immigration enforcement right. I think that there is a problem there, and it needs some really careful analysis and a brutal look at who's doing what and who's got what powers where.

I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

I believe in focusing on details.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.