Structure Quotes · Page 9

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

— Sheila Rowbotham

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

— Frederick Lenz

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

— Norman Mailer

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

— Winston Churchill

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

— Bill Viola

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

— Don DeLillo

There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure.

— Peter Morgan

The higher a flour's protein content, the more structure and elasticity it will lend a dough.

— Samin Nosrat

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that…

— Herbert Croly

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering,…

— Frederick Lenz

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has…

— Nikola Tesla

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many…

— David Kim

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing…

— Mark Fisher

I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal…

— Ma Yansong

“In the string model, the educational program lays out a structure to facilitate the goal of having the student “acquire the capacity…

— Loren Mayshark

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of…

— Barbara Hepworth

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards…

— John Yoo

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective…

— George Dantzig

Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in…

— Anonymous

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos…

— Harvey Pekar

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether…

— Jerry Saltz

I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,…

— Zadie Smith

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to…

— David Mamet

However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth…

— Steven Chu

[The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we’ll…

— Harold Evans

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with…

— Michelle Alexander

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you…

— Laura Nyro

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By…

— Noam Chomsky

For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay…

— Brian Koppelman

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to…

— Michael Merzenich

Never believe for a second that your weak, within all of us we have a reserve of inner hidden strength,

— Victoria Addino

Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frank Shorter

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

— Clifford Geertz

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

— Wes Bentley

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

— Narendra Modi

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

— Scarlett Thomas

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

— Richard E. Pattis