Quotes About Structure

Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

I am a responsible person. I plan a lot. I am disciplined.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

I've coached a lot of athletes over the years and it's not new to me to work with people and create drilling structure and things for them.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

Football isn't won by one person but by collective competence. It is the quality of the players and the structure of the club.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.