Generative Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered…
— Niels Kaj Jerne
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
— Noam Chomsky
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Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules…
— Noam Chomsky
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to…
— Peter Senge
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Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead…
— Henry Wessel, Jr.
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The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world…
— Peter Senge
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Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren…
— Georg Nees
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Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can…
— David Spangler
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We are going to need organizations that are culturally equipped to adapt. They must have internal processes that are creative, generative, and productive rather than…
— Karl Albrecht
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Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other…
— Toni Morrison
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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
— Rowan Williams
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When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People…
— Peter Senge
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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried…
— Claude M. Bristol
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If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in…
— Dani Shapiro
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Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like…
— Brian Eno
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It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that…
— Jerry Saltz
Who Wrote These Generative Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Generative Quotes as follows: