Analytic Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing…
— Betty Edwards
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Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession…
— Heinz Pagels
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The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of…
— Julie Mehretu
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The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to…
— Karl Kraus
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from…
— Sigmund Freud
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Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social…
— Richard Shusterman
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A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable to ontogeny. The…
— Gavin de Beer
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We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here…
— Edward F Edinger
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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets…
— Anna Freud
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility…
— Bertrand Russell
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When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession…
— J. G. Ballard
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Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the…
— Daniel Kahneman
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I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.
— Mariella Frostrup
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A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a sort;…
— John Updike
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