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Analysing Quotes

On overthinking faces, causes, and one's own character.

These quotes apply 'analysing' at very different scales: avoiding war by carefully studying its possible causes, or a visual artist who instinctively analyses a stranger's face to work out how to recreate it. More than one speaker admits discomfort analysing themselves, a tension explored in Being quotes.

Ever since I did that 57.9 last year, the Americans have been analysing me in detail. You can see on the swimming web pages. They are breaking it down in every detail. How many strokes I take. How quick I...

Quotes by Adam Peaty

I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.

Quotes by Raheem Sterling

'Baahubali' was a film that was never done before. Rajamouli sir was my biggest inspiration because he lives in the smallest house and drives the smallest cars, but he makes the biggest films ever. He taught me the art of...

Quotes by Prabhas

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about...

Quotes by Paullina Simons

Always Quotes

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Quotes by Neville Chamberlain

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

Quotes by Nathan Sawaya

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

Quotes by Marc Warren

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

Quotes by Julian Barratt

As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

Quotes by Janet Malcolm

Arrogance Quotes

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

Quotes by James Black

Sometimes, it is logical that by analysing a player, one thinks it is better to play him in one place or another, but then, if he is good, you can be more flexible.

Quotes by Gerardo Martino

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it....

Quotes by Dylan Moran

You can improve in every stage of your career, and even in training, after training, analysing your game, you can do a lot of stuff to make steps, and that's also a major point of becoming a top player.

Quotes by Divock Origi

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

Quotes by David Farr

Art Quotes

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

Quotes by Big Narstie

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

Quotes by Antony Hewish

Being a footballer was about analysing performance, never being satisfied, seeing what lessons you can learn and who you can learn from.

Quotes by Alex Scott

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

Quotes by Alain de Botton

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'analysing' mean across these quotes?
It spans diplomatic reasoning about the causes of war, an artist studying a stranger's face to recreate it, and personal discomfort with analysing oneself too closely.
Why do multiple quotes avoid self-analysis?
Two samples openly admit disliking talking about or analysing themselves, suggesting that turning careful scrutiny inward feels harder than applying it to outside subjects.
What's the diplomatic quote about analysing causes of war?
It describes seeking to avoid war by analysing its possible causes, working to remove them, and pursuing discussion in a spirit of collaboration rather than confrontation.
How does an artist use analysis in this collection?
One quote describes seeing the world in rectangles and instinctively analysing a person's face to figure out how to recreate it in bricks, a very literal creative application of analysis.
What other pages touch on similar self-reflection themes?
Being quotes and Art quotes both connect to the introspective and creative sides of analysing the world.

Taken together, these lines suggest analysing others often comes more naturally than turning that same scrutiny inward. For the confidence some people bring to self-assessment, see Arrogance quotes.