Quotes About Structure

I'm used to making songs; that's how I learned to make music. My structures will always be more like pop songs than dance tracks.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Freedom should be manifested within clear ethical guidelines and an egalitarian feedback structure. Informed

The failure of the Russian Revolution is directly traceable to the failure of its attempts to eliminate the family and sexual repression […] By the same token, all socialist revolutions to date have been or will be failures for precisely these reasons. Any initial liberation under current socialism must always revert back to repression, because the family structure is the source of psychological, economic, and political oppression.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

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A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I love order and organization.

I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

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He strode briskly away, to do whatever it was the managers did. Have meetings, I guess. Make phone calls. It was hard for us on the technical side to understand why the company required so many managers. Engineers built things. Salespeople sold things. Even Human Resources I could understand, kind of. But managers proliferated despite performing very few identifiable functions.

To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

People who have regular jobs can have no idea of just this problem of ordering a day that has no pattern imposed on it from without. The light goes early.

Because of a need for stability, children easily become creatures of habit.

I need your dominance, your strength. Your control. I need that structure. It centers me. It reminds me that I have a place in this world. With you.

An infiltration of the morning's sun gave the various objects a certain vague structure but in no way dispelled the darkness. Here and there a thin beam of light threaded the warm brooding dusk and was filled with slowly moving motes like an attenuate firmament of stars revolving in grave order. One of these narrow beams lit Fuchsia's forehead and shoulder, and another plucked a note of crimson from her dress.