Structure Quotes
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
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The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
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The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.
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There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.
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Each system has a specific structure made up of certain maintained relationships among its parts, and manifests irreducible characteristics of its own.
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I have done my best to this single end, to aid as many as possible in a very recondite as well as laborious matter, and truly and completely to describe the structure of the human body which is formed not of ten or twelve parts - as it may seem to the spectator - but of some thousands of different parts.
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Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
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Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.
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In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.
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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
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I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.
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Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.
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The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.
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Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that the fibres of goethite are just the right size to make up a resilient composite structure.
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We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.
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Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
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To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
