Quotes About Structure

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

images quickly because, unlike Intel's microprocessors or other general-purpose CPUs, they're structured to conduct lots of simple calculations—like shading pixels—simultaneously.

Die Glocke reißt Gedankengänge ab in der Schulstunde, schneidet Plaudereien in der Pause auseinander, trennt Freundinnen im Garten, macht Herzklopfen vor unangenehmen Schulstunden, reißt einem die Tasse vom Mund beim Frühstück. Die Glocke ist Befehl. Unpersönlicher, gnadenloser, ewig gleichbleibender Ordner eines ereignislosen Daseins.

Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.

The same linguistic structures that allow us to soar through time and space and model entire universes in our heads also enable us to foresee our own mortality. Language also permits us to imagine a self that isn't earthbound and a world beyond death. So far it hasn't offered a way to avoid it.

any experience exists for itself, is structured, is the specific way it is, is one, and is definite.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

I seldom have a firm plot or any idea at all about the ending. But there is a clear, almost mathematically conceptual idea that determines length--the length or brevity of a literary work being comparable to the size of the frame needed by a picture.

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear how it did and it was precisely because people couldn't hear that that they were willing to let movements be taken out of pieces.

You must keep them as tidy as you can,

He had the narrow face and long-legged, hipless figure that Victorian novelists called 'aristocratic'. Basil had seen the same leanness to often in the families of farmers and factory workers to believe that the human bone structure can be altered in a few generations by property and leisure.

Miri and I conferred and decided that we liked the tallness of the house, the way the walls shoot up and up with the certainty of stone

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Can a cat vanish, but not its grin? Can structure exist without matter? This may be possible in the abstract interpretation of Plato and Plotinus; in a concrete sense, it is impossible. Structured matter can be interpreted as an excitation of unstructured matter, just as the cat with the grin may be seen as an excitation of the nongrinning cat.

There is no such thing as an indescribable material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An example is the chaotic disposition of sand grains at the beach, or of flecks of light on a television screen when the station closes down. In the chaotic distribution, no location or direction is preferred. Only when there is structure appearing in a chaotic distribution does orientation become possible, as the overall symmetry is broken.

Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

NETWORK     Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections JOHNSON'S

order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

What is precious to us in an author's work is the labor of his soul and not the architectural structure in which he packs his thoughts and feelings.