Quotes About Structure

Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

The Supreme Court has in place a legal structure which protects abortion rights in this country, and something has got to be done to change that before we can put in place truly meaningful protection for the unborn.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

A screenplay is a story told with pictures, in dialogue and description, and placed within the context of dramatic structure.

When you can articulate your subject in a few sentences, in terms of action and character, you're ready to begin expanding the elements of structure and story. It may take several pages of free-association writing about your story before you can begin to grasp the essentials and reduce a complex story line to a simple sentence or two. Don't worry about it. Just keep doing it, and you will be able to articulate your story idea clearly and concisely.

It's a lot more comfortable to live in a world where the rules still apply.

People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

Built in the early days after the Romans colonized Campania, the structure was vastly older than Rome's famous Coliseum.

wolf society has an organized structure but also has free will.

most dog owners, having heard the mantra of "be a strong alpha" for so long, quite understandably reproduce a pack structure that's dysfunctionally skewed toward dominance rather than cooperation.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.

There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about how their brain works. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about just how they're put together. I mean, these animals are basically, topologically, spheres. They don't have bones as we do, of course.