Quotes About Structure

in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.

That's not how it works around here, and our whole existence depends on things working.

We have more than enough data to create a blueprint.

culture is as much an infrastructure as it is ideas.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives.

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

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St Augustine said it best: 'Lay first the foundation of humility . . . The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

All poems live or die in the concerted arrangement of syllables into patterns that are alternatively broken or reinforced. Wyatt taught me that." —James Longenbach

China is chaotic and complex, requiring a more dictatorial management structure that doesn't have room for democracy or discussion.

lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.

At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.

Just as it is essential for a finite game to have a definitive ending, it must also have a precise beginning. Therefore, we can speak of finite games as having temporal boundaries—to which, of course, all players must agree. But players must agree to the establishment of spatial and numerical boundaries as well. That is, the game must be played within a marked area, and with specified players.

If finite games must be externally bounded by time, space, and number, they must also have internal limitations on what the players can do to and with each other. To agree on internal limitations is to establish rules of play.

The assumption guiding our struggle against nature is that deep within itself nature contains a structure, an order, that is ultimately intelligible to the human understanding

Society is a manifestation of power.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

was something different about his genetic structure. His ex-lover Megan Reed had once told him he was a 'super-compatible', a rare human anomaly who could accept augs without the yoke of the anti-rejection drug to keep him whole. Jensen was still undecided if that was a gift or a curse, and he couldn't stop himself from wondering if this unique quality was some loose thread left behind by other unanswered questions from his past. Questions

What if the pattern is pre-set? No no – hang on

We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.

Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.

Quel changement, Strozzi had said, and it was true. The change was there, and not only in the chamois and lawn, replacing the velvet, the rubies, the gold tissue. It was as if all about him had been stripped down and cleansed and reduced, without blurring, to its true structure. And his eyes, which were smiling, were clear.