Quotes About Structure

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

The depthless postmodern surface incorporates fragments of once-meaningful codes and conventions that are now blankly cited without context or referent. The result is not a coherent aesthetic structure but an opaque and resistant pastiche.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

But long sentences often tend to collapse or break down or become opaque or trip over their awkwardness.

The church is not a voluntary association to be governed as its members see fit, but a dwelling place of God. It ought to be structured according to the orders of its commander, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick.

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

My business is the analytical framework.

Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.