Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Music is structure out of Chaos

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

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

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

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