Structure Quotes

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

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

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

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

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.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

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

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

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

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

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

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

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

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

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.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.