Quotes About Structure

Successful people create systems so that essential tasks always get done.

Families create specialists.

We must shore up this institution of marriage: The programs like marriage initiatives in the nation's capital, where couples are given community assistance, education, and financial incentives. They need to get married and to stay married. In the battle against poverty we cannot ignore the central role of family structure.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Another tower, still whole, was trussed up in scaffolding, and the wind sang through the structure of metal poles, wanting to fling pieces down at you.

Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.

Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room.

It's a beautiful universe... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.

The father-mother-son that makes up the basic family unit, at least as the Family has described it for centuries now, represents a power structure, a structure of strong powers, mediating powers, and subordinate powers, as well as paths for power developments and power restrictions.

I'm using "discourse" in an older sense: discourse as response, understanding, discourse as structure both conscious and unconscious: not dialogue, but what impels and structures dialogue: not the "discourse between …" but the "discourse of …

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Give children a clock to live by," Mrs. Lee said. "So they know what's coming, when it's coming, how long it will last. They'll take comfort in that knowing.

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

as Flannery O'Connor put it, "In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from the whole meaning of it. The form of a story gives it meaning which any other form would change."6

It began, as it often does, with a woman putting her ducks in a row.

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.