Quotes About Structure

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.

I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.

One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

My dad was a commander in the U.S. Navy with three daughters - you can imagine the tight ship that was our family household!

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

My best album is probably my second one, It's a 'Big Daddy Thing.' I like a lot of the songs on there. It was put together... just the structure of the album was tight.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

I keep a really tight schedule.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

When you knead youre not only developing the gluten, but youre also lining up those gluten strands into an orderly structure thats strong and tight.

I don't think of myself as having any freedom when it comes to how 'Monstress' is structured and how the story is going because a comic book has to be even more tightly structured than a novel, because there is no room for mistakes. Once the art is done, the art is done.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

For me as the founder, it was shocking to see how having a more formal structure with lines of reporting and processes can so easily start to disconnect you from the customer.