Structure Quotes

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

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.

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the deathless stage experienced by the wise

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

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

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

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

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

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?"

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

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

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

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

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

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

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

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

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

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

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.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

I assume these structures are made for siting?

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure.

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.