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"The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life."
"Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity."
"When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles."
"In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals."
"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
"In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results."
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
"I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life."
"Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force."
"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."
"In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry."
"Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis."
"I find that an entertainer is quite content to sit still, and I think an artist always has a little motion, always going somewhere. May not know where it is, but there is some sort of unnamed destination. There is some pulling, some movement. So I just found myself in that category according to my own analysis."
"Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights."
"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."
"The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis."
"The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations."
"The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas."
"To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is."
"The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate."
