Deep Analysis Quotes

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

'Ick investing' means taking a special analytical interest in stocks that inspire a first reaction of 'ick.' I tend to become interested in stocks that by their very names or circumstances inspire unwillingness - and an 'ick' accompanied by a wrinkle of the nose on the part of most investors to delve any further.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.