Quotes About Structure

I have an immensely understanding partner who does something creative herself, and we both need a lot of time alone. I structure my life around getting my work done, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. That's the only way I've been able to do it.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.

My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.

I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

One of the evidences of wisdom is order.

The authorities of this so-called education take pride in their ship shape structure where they manufacture dumb manikins.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

I actually was consciously trying to emulate bands like Bruce Springsteen, and just trying to emulate what they do structurally.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Look, every club needs stability.

During the first season of European football at Hoffenheim after we lost the Champions League knockout game to Liverpool, I changed a lot of players between Bundesliga matches and the Europa League for fresh legs. I learnt that we needed more stability. You need to keep five or six of the same places to give you structure, to be your spine.

I remember all the old catwalks and stuff at County Stadium.

I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.