Quotes About Structure

they used a mix of Nevada and Wyoming entities to hold the LLCs formed in the states where the property was located.

you don't want a lot of assets in one LLC (or LP). An LLC that holds ten properties is a much bigger target than ten LLCs each holding one property. In the first case, a fall at one property exposes the other nine properties to attack.

By contrast, in a member-managed LLC, the members are the shareholders, directors, and officers all at once.

LLCs are favored for asset-holding entities.

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Every institution is an assemblage of choices about how best to organize human beings in light of some particular goal. The premise of this book is that most of these choices can and must be revisited.

dismantling bureaucracy means dismantling traditional power structures. As you may have noticed, people with power are typically reluctant to give it up, and often have the means to defend their prerogatives. This is a serious impediment, since there's no way to build a human-centric organization without flattening the pyramid.

It is our bureaucracy-encrusted organizations that are slow witted, not the people inside them.

FIGURE 3-3 Bureaucrats and bureaucratic work as a percentage of the US workforce

What's natural eventually turns inward to bring stability, but then the church becomes so stable that no one wants to grow anymore. People begin to guard the structure and programs already in place, so it is difficult to close out an older ministry, let alone start a new one.

Everyone always feels better when there's a plan.

Like a long-haul jet, their building was divided into economy, business, and first.

Among his myriad achievements, perhaps his lasting heritage is a renewal of emphasis on symbol and poetic meaning in fields like architecture that became overwhelmingly concerned with form and structure

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what you have is a box of junk.

The work of making, maintaining, and analyzing classification systems is richly textured. It is one of the central kinds of work of modernity including science and medicine. It is, we argue, central to social life

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

Reason is not universal in the transcendent sense; that is, it is not part of the structure of the universe. It is universal, however, in that it is a capacity shared universally by all human beings. What allows it to be shared are the commonalities that exist in the way our minds are embodied.

The brain is not neutral; it is not a general-purpose device. It comes with a structure, and our understanding of the world is limited to what our brains can make sense of. Some of our thought is literal- framing our experience directly. But much of it is metaphoric and symbolic, structuring our experience indirectly but no less powerfully. Some of our mechanisms of understanding are the same around the world. But many are not, not even in our own country and culture.

What we have here is an image-mapping based on structure—in this case, struc- ture that is in part metaphorically imposed. When such a mapping exists between the structure of a sentence and the structure of the meaning or the image that the sentence conveys, the mapping is called "iconic.

Iconicity provides an extra layer of metaphorical structure to the poem.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can always reach out to smooth a stray hair. And yet, at a certain point, I must walk away, trusting them to do their work. I am left looking over my shoulder, wondering if I might have structured one more effectively.

I think Romney's talking himself out of the election, to be honest. I was wondering what was gonna happen when the Republican power structure turned the money on, and then they turned on the money and nothing happened.