Best 292 quotes in «structure quotes» category

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

I am talking and really talking on this very entrenched power structure, and what we're doing is we're talking about the power structure, we're talking about its entrenchment. As a result, the media is going through what they have to go through to.

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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