Structure Quotes

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh . . . second biggest.'

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

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.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

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.

The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

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

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.

I know what the structure of the language is.

The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

New ideas require new structures.

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

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

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

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

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.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

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

The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

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