Quotes About Structure

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

place was half hidden in mist, so that if you had glanced up at the mountain you would probably not have noticed the building

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos—some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.

Self-organizing teams form the core of APM. They blend freedom and responsibility, flexibility and structure. In the face of inconsistency and ambiguity, the teams strive to consistently deliver on the product vision within the project constraints. Accomplishing this requires teams with a self-organizing structure and self-disciplined individual team members. Building this kind of team is the core of an agile project leader's job.

Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.

Porter starts with the industry because competing to be unique is a choice made against a specific and relevant set of rivals, and because the structure of the industry determines how the value it creates is shared.

These five forces—the intensity of rivalry among existing competitors, the bargaining power of buyers (the industry's customers), the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of substitutes, and the threat of new entrants—determine the industry's structure

Second, industry structure determines profitability—not, as many people think, whether the industry is high growth or low, high tech or low, regulated or not, manufacturing or service. Structure trumps these other, more intuitive, categories. Third, industry structure is surprisingly sticky.

Note that if an industry doesn't create much value for its customers, prices will barely cover costs. If the industry creates a lot of value, then structure becomes critical in understanding who gets to capture it. Industries can, and often do, create a lot of value for their customers or suppliers while the companies themselves earn very little for their efforts.

I just think that where that kiss was heading is someplace that's a lot easier for you than it is for me. My life is very structured. Very simple. Very sane.

A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However,

Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creativity. You start to go deep into a subject, and a bell rings to pull you out of it.

Look for what's there, but most of all, look for the relationships between things. Find the systems

the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky wrote that "absolute power is a structure, not a possession.