Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product

Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

Music is structure out of Chaos

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.