Quotes About Structure

By plot, I here mean the arrangement of the incidents.

The Plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy.

But most important of all is the structure of the incidents. For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action.

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.

Although the relationships among them are not explicitly defined, there is no doubt that these terms and the vocabulary's syndetic structure can be helpful when retrieving resources within a database or catalog.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

His answer to life was discipline. We had a strict routine that nothing could change:

It wasn't that I disliked the army. In fact, it was one of the best things that had ever happened to me. Being a soldier had done a lot for my self-confidence. Once I was living independently from my family, I found out I could depend on myself. I learned to make comrades of strangers and be a comrade in return. The structure and discipline seemed more natural than at home. If I carried out orders, I felt I'd accomplished something.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

It took centuries to form the German order.

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on.

'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

I believe in rules. I believe in artistic limitations, and I always have. I've always thought that setting out a set of rules before you start, and then being completely consistent with them, is the only way to make a really good film.

unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will.

The principles of classical management theory have become so deeply ingrained in the ways managers think about organizations that for most of them the design of formal structures, linked by clear lines of communication, coordination, and control, has become almost second nature. This largely unconscious embrace of the mechanistic approach to management has now become one of the main obstacles to organizational change.

Since the early days of ecology, these multileveled arrangements have been called hierarchies. However, this term can be misleading, since it is derived from human hierarchies, originally from the Catholic Church and now from the military and corporate worlds. These have fairly rigid structures of domination and control, quite unlike the multileveled order found in nature.

In the new paradigm, every structure is seen as the manifestation of an underlying process. The entire web of relationships is intrinsically dynamic. The shift from structure to process is evident, for example, when we remember that mass in contemporary physics is no longer seen as measuring a fundamental substance but rather as a form of energy, that is, as measuring activity or processes.

how does DNA control RNA? The structure of DNA must at least give us a hint.

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.