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Quotes About Structure

Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural
~ Anne Fausto-Sterling
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a back seat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.
~ Anne Mallory
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best." His eyes raked her hotly, and she felt her internal temperature increase like a kitchen stove overly stocked before being lit. "But the wittiest women rise to the top of this structure, conventional beauty often taking a backseat to a woman possessed of a clever tongue.
~ Anne Mallory
Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
~ Anne Sexton
Everything felt better when you knew what time it was. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour. There was always order, if you knew where to look.
~ Anne Ursu
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
~ Annie Dillard
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
~ Annie Dillard
Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to find a structure in which chess professionals of lower levels would make a good living as well.
~ Anish Giri
It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it a firm financial foundation that can ensure its longevity.
~ Philip Anschutz
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
~ Moshe Safdie
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.
~ Dominic Cummings
I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.
~ Jair Bolsonaro
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique of the power structure.
~ Ari Melber
You can't have force structure without proper training, without proper equipment, without proper leadership, without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.
~ Joseph Dunford
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
~ Garth Ennis
I like things in their proper places.
~ Alan Sugar
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
~ Jim Harrison
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
~ Jonathan Galassi
An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.
~ Nimrat Kaur
The higher a flour's protein content, the more structure and elasticity it will lend a dough.
~ Samin Nosrat
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
~ Robin Wright
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
~ Federico Fellini
The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.
~ Evelyn Waugh
His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald