Quotes about Structures

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner. Votes: 3

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Votes: 3

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society. Votes: 3

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. Votes: 3

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. Votes: 3

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. Votes: 3

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Votes: 3

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. Votes: 3

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world. Votes: 3

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence. Votes: 3

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. Votes: 3

The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light. Votes: 3

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. Votes: 3

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Votes: 3

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. Votes: 3

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. Votes: 3

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges. Votes: 3

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. Votes: 3

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. Votes: 2

Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features. Votes: 2

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring. Votes: 2

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice. Votes: 2

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them. Votes: 2

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations. Votes: 2

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. Votes: 2

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music. Votes: 2

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information. Votes: 2

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. Votes: 2

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry. Votes: 2

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. Votes: 2

Rules of taste enforce structures of power. Votes: 1

Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures. Votes: 1

Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures. Votes: 1

I assume these structures are made for siting? Votes: 1

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. Votes: 1

...just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw. Votes: 1

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. Votes: 1

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency. Votes: 1

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures. Votes: 1

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. Votes: 1

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. Votes: 1

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. Votes: 1

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Votes: 1

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. Votes: 1

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. Votes: 1

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. Votes: 1

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. Votes: 1

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. Votes: 1

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. Votes: 1

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. Votes: 1

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added. Votes: 1

...for if you lessen your anger at the structures of power, you lower your love for the victims of power. Votes: 1

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger. Votes: 1

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. Votes: 1

Someone should say that; why we shouldn't burn their schools and destroy their buildings and infrastructures instead of burning our own homes. Votes: 1

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets. Votes: 1

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. Votes: 1

When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those. Votes: 1

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. Votes: 1

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures. Votes: 1

Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals. Votes: 1

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. Votes: 1

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that. Votes: 1

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. Votes: 1

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there. Votes: 1

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator. Votes: 1

When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning - human meaning, that is - is defined by them. Votes: 1

You are not subject to the systems or structures of this world, you belong to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Glory, Prosperity, Beauty and Honor- where sickness is foreign. Votes: 1

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality. Votes: 1

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. Votes: 1

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. Votes: 1

Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease. Votes: 1

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on. Votes: 1

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 the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures. Votes: 1

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. Votes: 1

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. Votes: 1

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there. Votes: 1

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. Votes: 1

Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices. Votes: 1

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. Votes: 1

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. Votes: 1

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar. Votes: 1

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any. Votes: 1

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality. Votes: 1

The fact that the United States has political, economic, and legal structures that do indeed create incentives to control hazards (in the workplace) is one the reasons the corporations have moved to Latin America and Asia. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments. Votes: 1

It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it. Votes: 1

The pursuit of the crucified crown follows the performance of the crucified King such that both performances go against the power structures of the world that think victory and power come only through aggressive and violent means. Votes: 1

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music. Votes: 1

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. Votes: 1

When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded. Votes: 1

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. Votes: 1

The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives. Votes: 1

Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It's like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once in a blue moon, you get an octopus, but for the most part, you get skeletons. Skeletons are good shit. Votes: 1

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies. Votes: 1

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church. Votes: 1

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women. Votes: 1

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. Votes: 1

It's foolish to trump up stories about how primitive humans built pyramids, stone henge or other ancient giant structures. The only logical explanation is...those relics ain't built by human kind. It is easier to admit this pity explanation than to justify otherwise. Votes: 1

What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet. Votes: 1

People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. Votes: 1

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go. Votes: 1

The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a self-aware substructure will perceive more complex mathematical structures. In other words, our successful theories are not mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics! Votes: 1

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice. Votes: 1

A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth rates, homeotic mutations that change the identities of whole body parts, and paedomorphosis, which converts juvenile stages directly to adult ones. Votes: 1

A revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society. Votes: 1

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't. Votes: 1

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much. Votes: 1

The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh. Votes: 1

Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. Votes: 1

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. Votes: 1

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Votes: 1

Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented. Votes: 1

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit.] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items. -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary Votes: 1

Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a Death of a Thousand Cuts. In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history. Votes: 1

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces. Votes: 1

America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation. Votes: 1

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. Votes: 1

...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive stance in their strategies and argumentation. This is why they understand each other! (Leonardo Boff, p. 178) Votes: 1

A human resources personnel wearing the hat of legal personnel at certain corporate structures without internal legal departments nor alliance with legal professionals, tend to decide issues of labour law deviations sans legal interpretation skills,thus snowballing a spark conflict to a raging dispute compellingly to be referred to an adjudicatory mechanism. Votes: 1

The sea was endless, even the man made structures that interfered with the currents hardly prevented it from ceasing its function. For the first time in my life, I didn't feel trapped in some form of bubble, it was the first time that I felt like I could truly breathe without being crushed by societies demands. Votes: 1

Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are members of oppressed and/or exploited groups as well as those radical visionaries who may have race, class, and sex privilege, to define and determine alternative standards, to decide on the nature and extent of compromise. Votes: 1

I doubt very much if it is possible to teach anyone to understand anything,that is to say, to see how various parts of it relate to all the other parts, tohave a model of the structure in one's mind. We can give other peoplenames, and lists, but we cannot give them our mental structures; they mustbuild their own. Votes: 1

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it. Votes: 1

I wasn't able to think about them directly or summon them up in any conscious way, but as I put together their puzzles and played with their Lego pieces, building evermore complex and baroque structures, I felt that I was temporarily inhabiting them again--carrying on their little phantom lives for them by repeating the gestures they had made when they still had bodies. Votes: 1

Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique way; and some of our newer brain components talk to each other via some very ancient structures indeed. Our brains are makeshift structures, opportunistically assembled by Nature over hundreds of millions of years, and in multiple different ecological contexts. Votes: 1

I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time. Votes: 1

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment. Votes: 1

For that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name. Votes: 1

Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful. Votes: 1

New ideas require new structures. Votes: 0

Art's supposed to build logic structures. Votes: 0

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity. Votes: 0

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken. Votes: 0

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. Votes: 0

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. Votes: 0

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. Votes: 0

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. Votes: 0

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures. Votes: 0

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. Votes: 0

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. Votes: 0

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. Votes: 0

Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture. Votes: 0

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. Votes: 0

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. Votes: 0

Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers, Votes: 0

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. Votes: 0

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions. Votes: 0

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are. Votes: 0

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around. Votes: 0

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly. Votes: 0

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Votes: 0

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. Votes: 0

Part of the reason some Japanese companies have underperformed financially was corporate governance and board structures. Votes: 0

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. Votes: 0

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020. Votes: 0

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. Votes: 0

I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures. Votes: 0

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another. Votes: 0

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. Votes: 0

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics. Votes: 0

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. Votes: 0

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society. Votes: 0

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures. Votes: 0

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts. Votes: 0

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different. Votes: 0

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. Votes: 0

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. Votes: 0

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. Votes: 0

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences. Votes: 0

Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else. Votes: 0

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected. Votes: 0

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top. Votes: 0

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects." Votes: 0

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures. Votes: 0

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions. Votes: 0

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical Votes: 0

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble. Votes: 0

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. Votes: 0

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. Votes: 0

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up. Votes: 0

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. Votes: 0

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way. Votes: 0

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. Votes: 0

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. Votes: 0

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. Votes: 0

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women. Votes: 0

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. Votes: 0

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. Votes: 0

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. Votes: 0

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Votes: 0

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. Votes: 0

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. Votes: 0

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? Votes: 0

The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. Votes: 0

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. Votes: 0

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures. Votes: 0

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero. Votes: 0

The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power. Votes: 0

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. Votes: 0

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age. Votes: 0

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying? Votes: 0

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love. Votes: 0

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures. Votes: 0

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. Votes: 0

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings. Votes: 0

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. Votes: 0

Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings. Votes: 0

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. Votes: 0

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort. Votes: 0

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. Votes: 0

If you have power, you might be able to heal a person. You could actually get inside their cell structures and create a change. Votes: 0

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience. Votes: 0

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information. Votes: 0

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction." Votes: 0

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised? Votes: 0

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence. Votes: 0

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures. Votes: 0

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. Votes: 0

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered. Votes: 0

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both. Votes: 0

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law. Votes: 0

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species. Votes: 0

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world. Votes: 0

Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species. Votes: 0

The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time. Votes: 0

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer. Votes: 0

If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union. Votes: 0

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination. Votes: 0

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries. Votes: 0

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives Votes: 0

The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity. Votes: 0

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems. Votes: 0

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well. Votes: 0

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times. Votes: 0

I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice. Votes: 0

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well. Votes: 0

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn. Votes: 0

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. Votes: 0

Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people. Votes: 0

There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money. Votes: 0

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. Votes: 0

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site. Votes: 0

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. Votes: 0

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions. Votes: 0

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We're not whole. Votes: 0

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures. Votes: 0

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. Votes: 0

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. Votes: 0

So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her. Votes: 0

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving. Votes: 0

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time. Votes: 0

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous. Votes: 0

Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat. Votes: 0

I don't think that neutrality is an obstacle to Austria's successful integration into European and world structures... but this is a question that the Austrian people themselves must decide Votes: 0

Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations. Votes: 0

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures. Votes: 0

Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to bring order and fruitfulness into the world. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises. Votes: 0

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.' Votes: 0

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. Votes: 0

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully. Votes: 0

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. Votes: 0

The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead. Votes: 0

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimedes had dreamed possible. Votes: 0

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. Votes: 0

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts? Votes: 0

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. Votes: 0

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs. Votes: 0

In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions Votes: 0

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures. Votes: 0

Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience. Votes: 0

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. Votes: 0

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed. Votes: 0

Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. Votes: 0

Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. Votes: 0

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings. Votes: 0

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures. Votes: 0

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century. Votes: 0

I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures. Votes: 0

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history Votes: 0

When we think of our world today with all of its interconnectedness and complexities, the scope of gospel renewal includes systems and structures that are far beyond what we might consider day-to-day. Votes: 0

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy. Votes: 0

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration. Votes: 0

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body. Votes: 0

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines. Votes: 0

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers. Votes: 0

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all. Votes: 0

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. Votes: 0

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. Votes: 0

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. Votes: 0

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. Votes: 0

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive. Votes: 0

"ŽIn every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. Votes: 0

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. Votes: 0

...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 separation of party and state. It does not. Votes: 0

To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them. Votes: 0

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. Votes: 0

I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography. Votes: 0

Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for each group its behavior and for each institutions its practices." Votes: 0

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning"”human meaning, that is"”is defined by them. You have to admit that. Votes: 0

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a greater flourishing to our society to the glory of God. Votes: 0

So many today are worshiping in the mountains, big churches, stone and frame buildings. But Jesus teaches that salvation is not in these stone structures-not in the mountains-not in the hills, but in God. Votes: 0

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking. Votes: 0

Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish. Votes: 0

Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel Tower] is one of the most striking of our modern national genius. Votes: 0

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up. Votes: 0

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. Votes: 0

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved. Votes: 0

Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude. Votes: 0

The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency. Votes: 0

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good. Votes: 0

Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work. Votes: 0

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures. Votes: 0

For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures. Votes: 0

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go. Votes: 0

The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%. Votes: 0

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures. Votes: 0

Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work. Votes: 0

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term. Votes: 0

As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story. Votes: 0

A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world. Votes: 0

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page. Votes: 0

These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic complex by presenting the ideologies, institutions and relations of the powerful as commonsense. Votes: 0