Theoretical Analysis Quotes

#1. However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

Paul Krugman

#2. The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Talcott Parsons

#3. My brother and late sister and I were raised in Detroit; it was where the middle class across racial lines, the middle class was able to develop, build a home, have for the first time retirement benefits, have a job, and yes, their kids began to go to college.

Sander Levin

#4. Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

Edmond Jabes

#5. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#6. There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.

Francis Galton

#7. I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

Ronaldinho

#8. I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

James Tobin

#9. [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'

W. W. Rouse Ball

#10. They say ... the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

Al Davis

#11. [Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should've just said no.
(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Saul Tanpepper

#12. Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead.

Lauren Oliver

#13. We shall progress inch by inch.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. There seemed nothing to do but live.

J.M. Coetzee

#15. She looked at him and her heart tipped sideways.

Rachel Joyce