Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

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 hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

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

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

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

The more spastic song structure I have, the more I hate it afterwards.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and relations have always been good ... really between the British forces and the local Iraqis in this area.

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

The structure of your practice is the main reason for your success or lack of success as a coach

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn’t seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

The structure is there, and will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.

Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

...visual truth lies in the structure of light.