Quotes About Structure

his new place would have to be clean and orderly, to signify self-mastery.

there was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar

Home is the place with the most rules.

The vast and distant military and civilian structure that provides a modern soldier with his orders, arms, ammunition, food, water, information, training, and fire support is ultimately a moral structure, a fiduciary, a trustee holding the life and safety of that soldier. The need for an intact moral world increases with every added coil of a soldier's mortal dependency on others. The vulnerability of the soldier's moral world has vastly increased in three millennia.

Knjiga je nekaj ve? kot besedna struktura. Je dialog, ki ga za?ne s svojim bralcem. Ta dialog je neskon?en, književnost je neiz?rpna, in to zaradi zelo preprostega razloga - ker je vsaka knjiga taka. Knjiga ni stvar brez komunikacije: je razmerje, je opora neštetih razmerij.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

A good sentence in English has a structure that begins with the second most important element, moves to the least important element, and ends with the strongest element. The pattern is 2-3-1.

Lo repito: basta que un libro sea posible para que exista. Sólo está excluido lo imposible. Por ejemplo: ningún libro es también una escalera, aunque sin duda hay libros que discuten y niegan y demuestran esa posibilidad y otros cuya estructura corresponde a la de una escalera.

A rhyme turns an idea into a law; and, in a sense, each poem is a linguistic codex.

Inhumanity is always easier to structure than anything else. For that job, Russia never had to import the know-how. In fact, the one way for that country to get rich is to import it.

Brick and bricklaying somehow ring of an alternative order of flesh, not raw of course, but scarlet enough, and made up of small identical cells.

The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That's where you are. You've got to keep both going. As Novalis said, The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet. Joseph Campbell, 1991, The Power of Myth, pp.68-69

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.

Bir ?iirde dizeler bir duvar?n ta?lar? gibidir. Ta?, bir duvarda nas?l ta? olmaktan ç?kmaz, yap?s?n?, do?as?n? korursa, dizeler de öyledir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 33

Öte yandan, modern dünya ?iirinin kurucular?n?n ?iirin yap?s?nda yapt?klar? devrim, dizeyi de yerinden oynatm??t?r." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 36

Whatever comes under the heading of fugal form partakes in some way of the nature of a fugue. You already know, I feel sure, that in texture all fugues are polyphonic or contrapuntal (the terms are identical in meaning). Therefore, it follows that all fugal forms are polyphonic or contrapuntal in texture.

No more than a utilitarian structure when constructed in 1913 as headquarters for Lambert's first excavation, the plain, one-story stucco building had been going downhill ever since. For

There is order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

Si la désorganisation garantit l'échec, l'organisation ne garantit pas la réussite.

It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

It is surprising how much disruption the structure of normal life can absorb and still keep functioning. But then again, considered mathematically, society has never been an assemblage of things so much as an assemblage of variables.