I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
I've never been much into picking things apart.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
I feel like I've got a routine with how I study the opponent and go about each week.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small expense
I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.
There's a lot you can learn about something by taking it apart.
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure what it's revealing, and then you perform it.
Part of the way that I work is to observe.
I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past.
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.