Quotes About Structure

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

My main profession is architect.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Discipline is creating the situation.