Quotes About Structure

I have to plan things. That's my personality. If I don't have a plan, I get overwhelmed.

Disorder keeps increasing if things are left to themselves.

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

For the party of order, disorder has always had its uses

The incentive is to fight anarchy. That's all Man lives for. Reclaiming life from its natural muddle. Making patterns." "Patterns for what?" "For the sake of patterns. To create meaning. What else is there?

Nevertheless, except in Poland and the occupied territories of the USSR,* the Nazis consistently succeeded in enlisting the assistance of much of the established power structure, civil service personnel, and police.

Humans, at any age, are habitual creatures—they function better within a regular pattern of events. Structure and routine are normal to everyday life. Everything has a logical order. As my Nan says, "You can't add eggs to the pudding after it's baked.

Una rutina estructurada no es lo mismo que un «horario». Es importante repetir esto: la vida de un bebé no puede ajustarse a las agujas de un reloj.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.

I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.

the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing. How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos ? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature.

The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that of the inference which generates interpretation. The task of specific semiotics, on the other hand, will be that of establishing—according to the sign system in question—the rules of greater or lesser semiotic necessity for inferences (institutionalization rules).

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

That life was full of rules. Too many rules; it was a prepacked kind of life.

But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.

Routine sets you free

this epidemic of fear was not born out of some genuine, daily increasing certainty of disaster but of an infection of the imagination whose susceptibility to its own terrors might eventually lead to an actual catastrophe, in other words the false premonition that a man who had lost his bearings might succumb to once the inner structure of his life

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Relatedly, an increasingly horizontal structure of learning puts pressure on how learning institutions-schools,

traditional institutions on almost every level: hierarchy

amounts of organization, leadership, and funding. Like a proverbial iceberg, sometimes the "free

like the Catholic Church, universities today bear a striking structural resemblance to what they were

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.