Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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

Music is structure out of Chaos

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.

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

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.

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.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

The form is the possibility of the structure.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.