Structures Quotes
341 quotes by 290 authors
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It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos…
— James Hillman
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
— Paul Goldberger
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In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the…
— Noam Chomsky
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In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows…
— Rajneesh
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The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed…
— Fritjof Capra
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The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of…
— Chinweizu Ibekwe
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...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the…
— Jacob Zuma
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When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions…
— Myles Horton
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My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on…
— Andreas Gursky
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Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.
— Douglas Crockford
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Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling…
— Victor Papanek
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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…
— Jack Ohman
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What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth…
— William B. Hurlbut
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just…
— Seth Godin
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Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems…
— Pope Francis
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I will step outside the system. Voting for the “lesser evilâ€-or failing to vote at all-is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is…
— Chris Hedges
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It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages people to have…
— Anita Roddick
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Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But…
— Anita Roddick
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