Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.

Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay has worked. He has identified key qualities that many commercially successful screenplays share, he has codified a language that has been adopted by creative executives in both film and television. So there might be something of tangible value to be gained by interacting with his material, either in book form or at one of the seminars. But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar is no seminar at all. To me, the writer wants to get as many outside voices OUT of his/her head as possible. Experts win by getting us to be dependent on their view of the world. They win when they get to frame the discussion, when they get to tell you there’s a right way and a wrong way to think about the game, whatever the game is. Because that makes you dependent on them. If they have the secret rules, then you need them if you want to get ahead. The truth is, you don’t. If you love and want to make movies about issues of social import, get your hands on Paddy Chayefsky’s screenplay for Network. Read it. Then watch the movie. Then read it again. If you love and want to make big blockbusters that also have great artistic merit, do the same thing with Lawrence Kasdan’s Raiders Of The Lost Ark screenplay and the movie made from it. Think about how the screenplays made you feel. And how the movies built from these screenplays did or didn’t hit you the same way. […] This sounds basic, right? That’s because it is basic. And it’s true. All the information you need is the movies and screenplays you love. And in the books you’ve read and the relationships you’ve had and your ability to use those things.

When the underlying structure of our freedom is in jeopardy, we do well to be concerned about our whistle-blowers, since blinking beacons are essential to secure a living together in a dependable social framework. (" High noon.")

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation within calculation.

You never change, you forever become!

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

Writing is the way I make sense of a chaotic world. I see the tumultuous backdrop of humanity around me, and I feel it is my duty (mainly to myself) to create a sense of meaning and understanding in such an atmosphere. It's all about timing. In a world without order, I create order. Sequence and structure, even in the busiest of places, allow me to be at peace.

After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

Entropy is the price of structure.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.