Quotes About Structure

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

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

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

It was a lot more wide open as to what a song was," Ranaldo says. "A song was a lot more about sound and structure than it was about chords and progressions and stuff like that.

It certainly made for music that relied less on melody and conventional song structure and more on mood and texture.

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That's a deep truth about the structure of our universe. But, for some reason, we insist on behaving as if it were not true.

At very small, subatomic dimensions, the structure of space-time is irregular. It's not smooth, it's sort of bubbly and foamy. And because it's way down at the quantum level, it's called quantum foam.

Documentation is an affirmation of order.

for many people, a job is crucial psychologically, over and above the paycheck. By making clear demands on their time and energy, it provides an element of structure around which the rest of their lives can be organized."2 The operative word here is clear. Documentation provides the clarity structure needs if it is to be meaningful to your people.

What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.

What the Manager was telling me, and what the Boss had told him, was that people—your people—do not simply want to work for exciting people. They want to work for people who have created a clearly defined structure for acting in the world. A structure through which they can test themselves and be tested. Such a structure is called a game.

The system runs the business. The people run the system.

3. The Model Will Stand Out as a Place of Impeccable Order

4. All Work in the Model Will Be Documented in Operations Manuals

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Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth. "To educate yourself sufficiently so that, as your business grows, the business's foundation and structure can carry the additional weight.

Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go, but the systems remain constant.

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

If a firm can spot an industry in which the fragmented structure does not reflect the underlying economics of competition, this can provide a most significant strategic opportunity. A company can enter such an industry cheaply because of its initial structure. Since there are no underlying economic causes of fragmentation, none of the investment costs or risks of innovations to change underlying economic structure need be borne.

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.