Structure Quotes
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.
I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution for Iraq.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.
Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.
Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.
It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.
That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.
Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.
My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.
Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.
At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.