Quotes About Structure

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.

Well, biology is not only about genes and environment, but also cells and the constraints of their physical structure, which we shall see have little to do with either genes or environment directly. The predictions that arise from these disparate world views are strikingly different.

Life is the interplay between structure and energy.

Our bodies are of such complexity of structure, the motions we perform are so numerous and involved, and the external impressions on our sense organs to such a degree delicate and elusive that it is hard for the average person to grasp this fact.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.

Institutional structures are legitimate insofar as they enhance the opportunity to freely inquire and create, out of inner need; otherwise, they are not.

Look, if you have a political movement that's strong enough that the power structure has to accommodate it, it'll get accommodated in some fashion-as in the case of union organizing rights here, the Wagner Act. But when that movement stops being active and challenging, those rights just aren't going to matter very much anymore.

For example, the difference between Pierre believes he is intelligent and He believes Pierre is intelligent is due to what are called relations of "command": co-reference is impossible if the pronoun is located "higher" in the phrase structure than its nonpronominal antecedent. Now in the second case Pierre is found in a subordinated position, thus "lower" than he, so that they cannot be co-referential in the relevant sense.

every form of authority and domination and hierarchy, every authoritarian structure, has to prove that it's justified—it has no prior justification

Syntactic Structures and LSLT.

the autonomy of syntax;

In brief, if we are biological organisms, not angels, much of what we seek to understand might lie beyond our cognitive limits – maybe a true understanding of anything, as Galileo concluded, and Newton in a certain way demonstrated. That cognitive reach has limits is not only a truism but also a fortunate one; if there were no limits to human intelligence, it would lack internal structure and would therefore have no scope: we could achieve nothing by inquiry.

The question is whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. Certainly

El término «Estados Unidos» se usa convencionalmente para referirse no tanto al país, como a sus estructuras de poder; acompaña el término de «interés nacional», que es concretamente el interés de esos grupos de poder y se corresponde poco con las necesidades de la población en general.

Without rules, chaos.' With chaos, life.

In the course of the changing relationship between those who produce art and those who need and buy it, the structure of art changes, not its value.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

My guess is that people haven't a clue how to get along . They need a structure , rules , and roles to play .

Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.

he was playing on the climbing structure by himself—or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it.

It is very difficult for a company whose cost structure is tailored to compete in high-end markets to be profitable in low-end markets as well.

Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.

Through a jobs lens, what matters more than who reports to whom is how different parts of the organization interact to systematically deliver the offering that perfectly performs customers' Jobs to Be Done. When managers are focused on the customer's Job to Be Done, they not only have a very clear compass heading for their innovation efforts but they also have a vital organizing principle for their internal structure.