Quotes tagged ‘analysis’

“I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay he'd ever had. I can't tell you how many men have told me what a lousy lay I…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, imdb.com

“Holt: I'm doing a cost-benefit analysis in my head. The benefits outweigh the costs- we have reached an accord. Peralta: Accords!”

— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Captain Ray Holt, Andre Braugher, imdb.com

“I summarize more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm" which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became…”

— Philip Zimbardo, en.wikiquote.org

“Just looking at an image of nature could be healing.”

— Roger Ulrich, theatlantic.com

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

— Ernest Rutherford, en.wikiquote.org

“Transformations come in packages big and small.”

— Rahawa Haile, theatlantic.com

“...there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do...Well, a philosopher can always contradict other philosophers.”

— William James, theatlantic.com

“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”

— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com

“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”

— Shel Silverstein, theatlantic.com

“Nobody expected that, and that's how things should be.”

— Mike Huckabee, theatlantic.com

“The quicker I can get somewhere, the better.”

— Mike Huckabee, theatlantic.com

“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.”

— Anne Fadiman, theatlantic.com

“Floods cause greater property damage and more deaths than tornadoes or hurricanes.”

— Ian Bogost, theatlantic.com

“Happy Sad Afraid/Surprised Angry/Disgusted”

— University of Glasgow, theatlantic.com

“Whatever its merits, the European position is rooted in its experiences that the free market of ideas can fail—disastrously.”

— Mila Versteeg, theatlantic.com