Quotes About Structure

the meaning of freedom can be fully understood only on the basis of an analysis of the whole character structure of modern man.

failure no matter how imposing the finished structure proved to be. Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design. "Burnham was not pleased," wrote Louis Sullivan, by now Adler's

Marxism, however, is not primarily a theory of class structure; it is above all a theory of class struggle.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

Metaphor is even built into the basic structure of creation. DNA is a code. A code is a kind of language. DNA expresses an idea—the idea of a man and a woman together—and brings it into being as you or me.

What's the delimiter between pyramid and ziggurat?

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

Palabras pulcramente escogidas; frases de cuidada estructura; acumulación argumental; empleo de la analogía; despliegue de excentricidades... Esos son los cinco mimbres retóricos del mayor orador de su generación.

Middle managers are the muscle and bone of every sizable organization, no matter how loose or "flattened" the hierarchy, but they are largely ignored despite their immense importance to our society and economy.

Few of the top ten participants in the new horizontal computer industry rose from the ranks of the old vertical computer industry, bearing testimony to the observation that it is truly difficult for a successful industry participant to adapt to a completely different industry structure.

can think of no better way to make the decision-making process straightforward than to apply before the fact the structure imposed by our six questions.

Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

Here I would like to propose Grove's Law: All large organizations with a common business purpose end up in a hybrid organizational form.

We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern:

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.

The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world - the real world, if you like - is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.

when you gain an understanding of the structure that lies beneath stories. When you understand the bone structure of a plot skeleton, you'll know how to build a story.

He regretted, as he did so many times these days, the structure of the working day. Without that he was truly alone, a condition he would not allow to become pathetic, but a condition nonetheless which caused him much grief.

I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream--now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. In the context of a story, a fairly boring thought in a character's head can work better than a brilliant one, and a brilliantly laid-out structure can be so much worse for a story than one that is more haphazard.