Quotes About Structure

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

My best hair care tip would be, choose a range that is right for your hair structure. Working with Pantene has made me realize the importance of this, and it really does make a difference. I have quite thick hair, so I use the Smooth & Sleek range.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

He wished, he said, to draw his listeners' attention to "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government." But labor, the rail-splitter-turned-lawyer declared

President Obama's regulators could have imposed some decency. They could have rewired the incentive structure that had turned young traders into improvised explosives. They did not.

Even if spirits exist (watching us, haunting us, inhabiting alternate universes that subvert time), granting them entrance through the spaces in our minds, or the structure of our homes, and any other doors we might construct, can only result in man's utter destruction.

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

The reason that common AD/HD strategies alone don't always work is because they usually focus on merely controlling the negative and difficult part of the AD/HD. You want to focus on supporting the new growth, not just taking care of the difficulties. As you grow and become more and more successful, you'll constantly think of new ways to form cushions of support and structure underneath you. The emphasis should be on nourishing your successes, not just managing your deficits.

One way some women mask their AD/HD symptoms is to anchor their lives with extensive systems and controls. They may seriously limit the amount of activities in their lives in order to keep things under control.

If P is a presheaf on C and x E P(C), the value for an arrow f : D -* C in C is called the restriction of x along f, and is often denoted by I or by a dot:

For my purposes, the differences among animistic, pantheistic, and monotheistic religions can be ascribed to differences in the content of beliefs in the supernatural, not to differences in the cognitive structure of those beliefs.

But online, there is no way to calibrate. You never see the Skype chats you're not in. Remote work demands social proactivity. Some talented people find these freedoms overwhelming, preferring the structure of space and time that traditional offices provide.

Organizations become bureaucratic as soon as people define their job around a specific rule, or feature, rather than a goal.

Systems that produce complexity consist of diverse rule-following entities whose behaviors are interdependent. Those entities interact over a contact structure or network. In addition, the entities often adapt.

Our goal over the next few chapters is to address the origin of complex structures—including, but not limited to, living creatures—in the context of the big picture. The universe is a set of quantum fields obeying equations that don't even distinguish between past and future, much less embody any long-term goals. How in the world did something as organized as a human being ever come to be?

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.