Structure Quotes

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

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

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people's hearts.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

[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.

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

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

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

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

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.

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

Entropy is the price of structure.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

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