Quotes About Structure

You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

If you peek behind the curtain at any type of company, you'll see that things are far less organized than you'd expect.

The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.

Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

The training at Tottenham is intense, but the structure is set out perfectly - in the gym, running, sometimes double sessions. Every player at Tottenham is in great shape.

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.

Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

Strategic wriggle is an art as well as a tactic at the heart of the strategy structure ,not a change in strategy.

Number rules the universe.

This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.

Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

The polarisation of man and woman was a structure, a form: she had only felt it once it was gone, and it almost seemed as though the collapse of that structure, that equipoise, was responsible for the extremity that followed

suppose it's a bit like marriage, he said. You build a whole structure on a period of intensity that's never repeated. It's the basis of your faith and sometimes you doubt it, but you never renounce it because too much of your life stands on that ground.