Structure quotes

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
-- Aaron Betsky

#Law #Syntax #Structure

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Important #Information #Structure

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
-- Achmat Dangor

#Home #Simple #Structure

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

#Internet #Individual #Structure

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov

#Peaceful #Election #Structure

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
-- Alain Robert

#Melting #Structure #Feels

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
-- Alan Perlis

#Trust #Data #Structure

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
-- Alan Watts

#Inspiring #Fabric #Structure

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
-- Albert Einstein

#Simple #Structure #Mathematical

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Individual #Social #Structure

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.
-- Amalia Kahana-Carmon

#May #Patterns #Structure

I assume these structures are made for siting?
-- Anna Banks

#Assuming #Structure #Made

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
-- Annie Jump Cannon

#Stars #Study #Structure

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
-- Aries Spears

#Fall #Comedy #Structure

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
-- Arthur Peacocke

#Perspective #World #Structure

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
-- Bill Ayers

#Ideas #Driven #Structure

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
-- Brett Hoebel

#Training #Intensity #Structure

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
-- Cass Gilbert

#Matter #Structure #Over Confidence

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Care #Structure

The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure
-- Chogyam Trungpa

#Impact #Dignity #Structure

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.
-- Christopher Flavin

#Kyoto #Challenges #Structure

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical
-- Clifford Geertz

#Structure #Skeptical #Agree

I like the sitcom, as a structure.
-- Dave Foley

#Structure #Sitcom

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
-- David Cronenberg

#Opera #Structure #Wells

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
-- David Vitter

#World #Social #Structure

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
-- Dean Koontz

#Mean #Psychology #Structure

Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.
-- Dieter Zetsche

#Full Potential #Action #Structure

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Firsts #Consciousness #Structure

The one overall structure in my plays is language
-- Edward Bond

#Play #Language #Structure

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
-- Edward Bond

#Democracy #Violence #Structure

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
-- Eric Millegan

#Bones #Structure #Feels

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.
-- Eugene Fitch Ware

#Book #Men #Structure

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
-- Eve Ensler

#Powerful #Trying #Structure

If you want to understand function, study structure,
-- Francis Crick

#Want #Study #Structure

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
-- Frank Herbert

#Culture #Enough #Structure

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

#Athlete #School #Structure

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.
-- Frederick Sommer

#Dimensions #Elegance #Structure

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
-- Fredric Jameson

#Worry #Location #Structure

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.
-- Geddy Lee

#Song #Texture #Structure

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
-- Geddy Lee

#Song #Expression #Structure

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
-- George Orwell

#Class #Succeed #Structure

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
-- George Orwell

#War #Victory #Structure

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
-- Gil Kane

#Saws #Structure

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
-- Gregory Benford

#Loss #Information #Structure

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire

#Nature #Elements #Structure

No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.
-- Gwen Bristow

#Two #Structure #Made

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
-- H. Rap Brown

#Class #Luxury #Structure

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
-- Harold Rosenberg

#United States #Social #Structure

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
-- Harry Seidler

#Language #Ancient #Structure

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
-- Henry Maudsley

#Brain #Unions #Structure

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
-- Ibrahim Babangida

#Country #Economic #Structure

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
-- Igor Stravinsky

#Order #Flow #Structure

Entropy is the price of structure.
-- Ilya Prigogine

#Structure #Entropy

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
-- Iris Murdoch

#Long #Structure #Long Marriage

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
-- J. Cole

#Cities #Routine #Structure

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
-- Jack Dorsey

#Shapes #Ferns #Structure

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.
-- Jack Ohman

#Ideas #Terrorism #Structure

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
-- Jack Zipes

#Transformation #Wonder #Structure

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...
-- Jacque Fresco

#Materialistic #Structure

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
-- Jaime Lerner

#Cities #Working Together #Structure

Structure is translation software for your imagination.
-- James Scott Bell

#Imagination #Structure #Software

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.
-- Jenny Shipley

#Needs #Structure #Aspect

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.
-- Jimmy Page

#Albums #Structure #Made

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
-- Joan Didion

#Writing #Cameras #Structure

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
-- Johannes Stark

#Problem #Scientist #Structure

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
-- Johannes Stark

#Atoms #Structure #Chemicals

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
-- John D. MacDonald

#Glitter #Maintaining #Structure

It would have been possible to structure my photographs in such a way that no indicators of the present were discernible. However, I wanted to incorporate into the project as a whole the jostling of time-frames I would feel as I set up my tripod on various rocky promontories.
-- John Pfahl

#Way #Photographer #Structure

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
-- John Polkinghorne

#World #Structure #Quantum

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
-- John Rawls

#Desire #Principles #Structure

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.
-- Jonathan Culler

#Art #Poetry #Structure

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
-- Joseph Needham

#Ideas #Hierarchy #Structure

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure
-- Julie Christie

#People #Never Quit #Structure

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
-- K. Patricia Cross

#Connections #Structure #Process

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.
-- Katie Salen

#Play #Movement #Structure

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.
-- Kedar Joshi

#World #Mysterious #Structure

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike

#Language #Revelations #Structure

Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
-- Krista Tippett

#Calm #Toddler #Structure

I know what the structure of the language is.
-- Kurt Loder

#Language #Structure

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
-- Lal Bahadur Shastri

#Law #Democracy #Structure

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
-- Larry Sabato

#Party #President #Structure

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
-- Le Corbusier

#Light #Expression #Structure

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
-- Libbie Hyman

#Structure #Aim #Anatomy

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Data #Worry #Structure

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
-- Lynn Abbey

#Style #Structure #Grows

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Islam #World #Structure

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.
-- Manuel Castells

#Doe #Corporations #Structure

I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.
-- Marcel Breuer

#Details #Structure #Smallest

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.
-- Marisa Tomei

#Structure #Highlights #Performances

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Powerful #Reality #Structure

It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.
-- Martin Sorrell

#Marketing #Premium #Structure

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
-- Mary Parker Follett

#Done #Structure

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.
-- Masha Tupitsyn

#Book #Roles #Structure

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.
-- Masha Tupitsyn

#Giving Up #Moments #Structure

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.
-- Michael Behe

#Machines #Protein #Structure

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni

#Scene #Structure #Rhythm

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#East #Middle #Structure

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
-- Morton Feldman

#Memories #Structure #Music Is

The so-called 'Palestinian autonomous areas' are bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of the Israeli apartheid system.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Structure #Entity #Apartheid

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed
-- Paul Muldoon

#Structure #Quartets