Analytical Ability Quotes

Like another great mind of his time, Albert Einstein, Keynes had a preternatural ability to see relationships between complex phenomena entirely differently than generations of experts before him.

The CIA should best serve the U.S. by being an unbiased reporter of the truth and if it were a fighting organization, that would affect its ability to analyze and report intelligence.

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

[Woodrow Wilson] could state a principle better than the expert from whom he had borrowed it.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

A researcher has to be able to identify key points and suggest intelligent questions.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

He has not a good enough grasp of issues nor the power of quick and firm decision to withstand the withering fire which the Republicans would subject him to.

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

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Gun skill is never the main reason why someone is talented at a game. It's literally their decision making.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

I've never seen a candidate - I've never seen a human being - who, with the most limited briefing, can understand the dimensions, the parameters, the nuances of everything of any kind of a policy or political problem.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

I'm not too unintelligent.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.