Quotes About Structure

Love and faith are isomorphic i.e. they have relevant structure or rather they are similar in form/relation. In the sense that, anyone who is full of both of them is bound to be pleasing to God. Thus, dare to be and remain loveful/faithful.

Style is the mind's architecture.

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.

Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist.

Two classical and archetypal structures. . . . the stranger comes to town and the journey [Sharon Creech, "Leaping Off the Porch"].

As long as the animals that produce the manure you put in your garden do not subsist on weeds, you can use the manure with confidence to improve your soil's structure and fertility. Also keep in mind that it's easier to control weeds than it is to grow healthy flowers and vegetables in weak, infertile soil.

Medieval political structure was ideally a contract exchanging service and loyalty in return for protection, justice, and order.

The last French Bourbon to reign, Charles X, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI and of his brief successor, Louis XVIII, displayed a recurring type of folly best described as the Humpty-Dumpty type: that is to say, the effort to reinstate a fallen and shattered structure, turning back history. In the process, called reaction or counter-revolution, the reactionary right is bent on restoring the privileges and property of the old regime and somehow retrieving a strength it did not have before.

In the family, from the first, the idea of authority has appeared. Protection and order are requisites of the family; and these cannot exist without recognition of an authority.

We had a solid structure and format in place, seasoned people involved in the production of the show, and audience popularity that was unprecedented. We knew we were onto something, but we had no idea that it would last as long as it did. That surprised all of us--but it was a wonderful surprise.

The wall is an architectural striptease.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

But in the genealogical plots of Dickens, which manage, against all the odds, and through extravagantly implausible coincidences, to work themselves out against the hostile background of the vast London crowds, we can identify the same narratological problem to which Joyce and Proust seek a queer structural solution: the competition for control of the narrative between the genealogical family and alternative forms of human connections.

conformations, or fit. Thus the rationale for structure-based design: to optimize the shapes of drug molecules. "Connecting the dots," Aldrich liked to call it in a heroic oversimplification that made some of the scientists at the tables wince. In effect, the goal is the very opposite of screening: building the molecules one wants rather than fishing for approximations in nature. The advantages of such drugs presumably

This is what she really thought of him; he was an engineer, not an artist. And yet, there was art in his work, in the soar of a structure and the arch of a bridge, in every framework of light and air and iron.

You have to have this straddling balance of realizing that games are incredibly complex. You can have an idea of where you want to go with something, the structure of something, but the actual moment to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in 'God of War''s case, about five years.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational structure of markets that turned into the work on signaling, which was the part of my early work that was recognized for the Nobel Prize, but it was not really a subject at the time.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.