Quotes About Structure

RULE 3. SET FORTH THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BOOK, AND SHOW HOW THESE ARE ORGANIZED INTO A WHOLE, BY BEING ORDERED TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE.

If communications were not complex, structural outlining would be unnecessary. If language were a perfect medium instead of a relatively opaque one, there would be no need for interpretation. If error and ignorance did not circumscribe truth and knowledge, we should not have to be critical.

Hausdorff dimension

There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today's power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

What I saw all around me that looked so lovely was no longer built on a structure belonging to or owned by the people. As they would learn in 2020–22, the puppeteer's hand could sweep the entire action away in a moment. The edifice of the beautiful drama of "European democracy" and human rights could come crashing down at any time. In fact, having for so long lived under EU governance left continental Europeans especially easy prey for the COVID tyrants.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

The Harbor was a plain brick building, undistinguished and solid.

Let youth pass, and no matter what opportunities presented themselves, the capacity to build the broad base required to support the structure of learning was gone.

When you work alone at home, time can become shapeless. There are no eleven o'clock meetings or afternoon coffee breaks. The light outside may clue me in to what part of the day it is, but if all is going well, the hours bleed together.

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

I don't like to see mess.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.

A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different.

Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery.

There are marriages whose raison d'être is beyond the grasp of even the most literary imagination. You have to accept them the way you put up with unbelievable couplings of opposites in the theater, such as old dodderers and vivacious beauties - relationships that are taken for granted and that form the basis for the mathematical structure of a farce.

She would give them order, she would create constellations

Charter'd Companies may indeed be the form the world has now increasingly begun to take.