Quotes About Structure

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

As the sociologist Ann Swidler has observed, "common sense"is really just deeply embedded culture: "the set of assumptions so unselfconscious as to seem a natural, transparent undeniable part of the structure of the world.

Goodwyn also warned against a politics of "individual righteousness," a tendency toward "celebrating the purity" of one's so-called radicalism. If you wish to democratize the country's economic structure, he argued, you must practice "ideological patience," a suspension of moral judgment of ordinary Americans.

If you're not interested in democratizing the country's economic structure, however, individual righteousness might be just the thing for you. This model deals with ordinary citizens by judging and purging; by canceling and scolding. It's not about building; it's about purity

Ontologically, Mainländer's thought is delirious; metaphorically, it explains a good deal about human experience; practically, it may in time prove to be consistent with the idea of creation as a structure of creaking bones being eaten from within by a pestilent marrow.

The problem of consciousness is all about subjective experience, about the structure of our inner life, and not about knowledge of the outer world.

The number one directive of any decent Master Plan is unlimited sub–Master Plans.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I haven't worked on a lot of different shows, but from just watching different shows I've noticed that there isn't necessarily on every show that love of crafting an episode that has the three part act structure that comes around and actually tells a complete story.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

Usually, if I have a day to write, I will spend the first hour thinking about how I am going to structure my day. I will also spend time helping my kids to get ready for school. Then I spend an hour making and eating breakfast, because balanced nutrition has suddenly become very important.

If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.

I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this idea that observation and structure and sort of watching them all the time - that that's what a good parent does.