Quotes About Structure

headquarters-bureaucrat vice presidents who are nonproducing but positioned to take the blame for those above them if anything goes wrong;

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

This meant various things, but two stand out. First, obviously, was that a church or a temple should look like a church or a temple, a house like a house, and not vice versa. But the Adam brothers would also assert that an architectural style must be flexible enough to compose and decorate any type of building. Therefore any building could be made to be beautiful, not only a town house or a commercial building, but even a warehouse—or a factory.

its passion for organizing and systematizing knowledge.

We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is unthinkable apart from the other. I do not think that a more general starting-point of structure could be conceived.

How do they know what to do?" Mary Frances said. "To just rip into a building like that and expect it to stay standing." "For the parts you want to stay standing," Tim said. "Exactly." "Practice," Al said. "And of course, one of them is in charge." Mary Frances studied the tangle of men, all dressed alike, movingly easily together. "I can't tell them apart." "Well, it's like war, I guess," Al said. "If you knew whom to blame, it'd be too easy to shoot him.

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.

the battle for structure.

The problem of an efficient group structure alone is enough to absorb anyone's interest. An organization of a committee of scientists or a panel of script writers is far from what it could be. But we lack control in the world at large to investigate more efficient structures. Here, on the contrary, here we begin to understand and build the Superorganism. We can construct groups of artists and scientists who will act as smoothly and efficiently as champion football teams.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

I'm interested in institutions, particularly in the way institutions close ranks. They have hierarchies and their own ethics.

Deep learning is a very capital-intensive area, and it's rare to find a company with both the necessary resources and a company structure where things can get done without having to pass through too many channels and committee meetings.

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.

If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.

Governments change but the system doesn't. One needs to believe in the system.

Once I started training at the Performance Center, getting in the groove of the schedule, and really getting used to that, I really loved it because I'm big with routine.

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

Whether you go on to be a great basketball player or not, that's not for me to decide. But you can learn things, you can develop structure, great habits and build that foundation on doing things the right way and develop a routine that carries you throughout life.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

Keep the operating entities—the ones that deal with the public—away from the asset-owning entities.

Consider having the operating entities hold fewer assets and lease expensive assets from the asset-owning entities.

Sole proprietorships and general partnerships provide no asset protection.

By contrast, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations offer much greater protection.