Quotes About Structure

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

It is not just willy-nilly running around. I need to fill certain spaces and make sure we are covered on both sides of the ruck and the numbers are right.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.

Relationships should be like flat pack come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

The Employer IS an Employer because he was once a good Employee. Thoroughness is at the bottom of Winning. No structure ever stood — built upon half sand and half stone. Be Thorough — stamping daily upon your very Brain, as a Motto, this thought —

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts.

La burocracia es una estructura mediante la cual una persona es convenientemente separada de las consecuencias de sus actos.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion

The problem lies in the structure of our minds:

Under the right market structure, a collection of idiots produces a well-functioning market.

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

Political parties are hierarchical, they are designed in a way to substitute someone's own decision making with a well-defined protocol.

The need to focus on the payoff from your actions instead of studying the structure of the world (or understanding the "True" and the "False") has been largely missed in intellectual history.

This was a freedom essential to the health even of a character so little susceptible of morbid influences as that of Phoebe. The old house [with dry rot in its structure and perhaps also in its inhabitants];...it was not good to breathe no other atmosphere that that.

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D. H. Lawrence had known that.

The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years.