Quotes About Structure

Lots of people do stand up shows with no narrative, but I love a beginning, a middle and an end.

I'm used to structure, and the relationship I have with my mom, from a military standpoint, is all about structure. There's a certain way of doing things. My mom knows how to focus on different situations. What I learned from her helps me out every night I play.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Neither living nor learning was good without order.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

A beautiful bridge is a poem.

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding

Order is Truth,—each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it: Order and Falsehood cannot subsist together.

Memory is a mental stabilizer and without it the mind becomes chaotic and unstructured, allowing 1999 and 1940 to merge.

I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.

Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.

Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

If I had the opportunity, I will ask every Nigerian kid to start his career in Germany. The structure they have in the Bundesliga is far from what is obtainable in other leagues.

I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.

Some players have no idea how to handle life without structure. That's why some players get into trouble during the offseason. This is literally the first time in our lives we've ever had free time without somebody telling us where to be and what to do.