logo

Quotes About Structure

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
~ Haruki Murakami
I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
~ Louis Kahn
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
~ Eric Hoffer
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
~ Theodore Levitt
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.
~ David Adjaye
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
~ Christopher Alexander
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
~ Edward T. Hall
The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.
~ Werner Heisenberg
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
~ Tadao Ando
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
~ Albert Einstein
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
~ Krista Tippett
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
~ Immanuel Kant
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
~ Ray Dalio
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
~ Lillian B. Rubin
An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.
~ Alfred Korzybski
An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.
~ Alfred Korzybski
A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.
~ Gunter Blobel
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
~ Anna Lindh
Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.
~ Albert Einstein
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
~ Marvin Bower