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Quotes About Structure

This is because the structure, novelty, and motivation associated with
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Difficulty getting organized. A major problem for most adults with ADD. Without the structure of school, without parents around to get things organized for him or her, the adult may stagger under the organizational demands of everyday life. The supposed "little things" may mount up to create huge obstacles. For the want of a proverbial nail—a missed appointment, a lost check, a forgotten deadline—their kingdom may be lost.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
animals of the land environment are dominated by species with the most complex social systems.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Learning to play a musical instrument even alters the structure of the brain, from subcortical circuits that encode sound patterns to neural fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres and patterns of gray matter density in certain regions of the cerebral cortex.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Molten gold thrown of ground solidifies into an ungainly mass, but put in moulds becomes attractive jewelry. Similarly, unarticulated thoughts reduced to writing will be nothing but meaningless jumble; whereas, properly reasoned and structured thoughts expressed in writing become meaningful, and if well written, can become masterpieces of literature.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Molten gold thrown on ground solidifies into an ungainly mass, but put in moulds becomes attractive jewelry. Similarly, unarticulated thoughts reduced to writing will be nothing, but meaningless jumble; whereas, proper reasoned and structured thoughts expressed in writing become meaningful, and if well written, can become masterpieces of literature
~ Ehsan Sehgal
On every authority is an authority, within nature, and system.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The judiciary perpetuates a breath of state structure. If it fails to purify and justify itself; consequently, all of its systems evince a collapse; indeed, it embraces only the destruction.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A fief, the elder Hosokawa had advised, was like a castle wall built of many rocks. A rock that could not be cut to fit in comfortably with the others would weaken the whole structure, even though the rock itself might be of admirable size and quality. The daimy? of the new age left the unsuitable rocks in the mountains and fields, for there was an abundance of them. The great challenge was to find one great rock that would make an outstanding contribution to one's own wall.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Her nausea increased, the dialect had become unfamiliar, the way our wet throats bathed the words in the liquid of saliva was intolerable. A sense of repulsion had invested all the bodies in movement, their bone structure, the frenzy that shook them. How poorly made we are, she thought, how insufficient. The broad shoulders, the arms, the legs, the ears, noses, eyes, seemed to her attributes of monstrous beings who had fallen from some corner of the black sky.
~ Elena Ferrante
I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.
~ Elif Batuman
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
~ Anthony Starr
What is universal is the human propensity to create order out of chaos.
~ Anthony Storr
am sure that one of the reasons why music affects us deeply is its power to structure our auditory experience and thus to make sense out of it. Although I have been at pains to dispel the psychoanalytic view that music is an escape from reality or a regression to an infantile state, there is no doubt that music provides one path of temporary withdrawal from the hurly-burly of the external world.
~ Anthony Storr
Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.
~ Anthony Storr
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
~ Antonin Artaud
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
~ Antonio Gaudi
An organisation is like a tree. Its growth is measured by the height it attains and the width it covers. It is largely considered GREEN because of its leaves. Its fruits (financial results) depend solely on its roots (leaders). If its branch (head) is functionally weak, the same part will always complain of being laden with too many leaves (employees) but the strong will grow more.
~ Anuj Somany
House is usually big and is made up of largely building materials like brick, mortar and concrete; Home is normally small and is made up of only love which has all power & strength to bond together all members to make them one family complete.
~ Anuj Somany
And as children get older, the structure of the school day becomes even more out of sync with the natural rhythms of children and adolescents.
~ Arianna Huffington
Law is order, and good law is good order.
~ Aristotle
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~ Aristotle