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“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.”

People Thinking Want Jobs Given Company Comfort Prove Built Tasks Majority Structure Minorities

Author:Mark Pincus

“The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.”

Whole Past Grows Research Built Foundation Structure Firm Firm Foundation

Author:Owen Chamberlain

“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.”

Want Kind Ideas Real Sometimes Moments Stories Body Song Heard Mines Perception Built Structure Passing Passings Fragile Interfere Improvisation

Author:Ryan Adams

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

Years Firsts Made Europe Built Function Management Institutions Structure Financial Made It Germany Continental Financial Institutions Top Management

Author:Peter Drucker

“Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.”

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.”

May Enough Social Levels Revolution Safe Tough Built Structure Democratic Dues Resistance Compromise Damage Tension Flexibility Techno

Author:Theodore Kaczynski

“Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.”

Humans Mean Rights Economic Built Abuse Structure West Human Rights Tyranny Oppression Globalization

Author:Jeremy Seabrook

“Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.”

Events Built Structure Paint Plot Coats Divorced Inseparable Slap Characterization

Book:Dynamic Characters

Source: Dynamic Characters

“For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.”

Together Strong Records Type Safe Built Responsible Structure Vehicle Engineers

Book:The Perfect Match

Source: The Perfect Match

“An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.”

Ifs Persons Home Universe Speak Becoming Built Structure Architecture Supreme Architect Vehicle Stadiums

Author:RZA

“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.”

Built Stones Foundation Structure Clean Golden Championship Strict My Thoughts Golden Rule Sportsmanship Observance Clean Living

Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.”

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.”

Whole Rocks Built Structure Operations Nonviolence

Book:Gandhigrams

Source: Gandhigrams

“Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.”

Wells May Hard Whole Might Happens Form Produce Evidence Built Structure Patterns Stuck Impulse Very Strong Interfere Reflexes Endorphins

Author:David Bohm

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“We will soon be living in an era in which we cannot guarantee survivability of any single point. However, we can still design systems in which system destruction requires the enemy to pay the price of destroying n of n stations. If n is made sufficiently large, it can be shown that highly survivable system structures can be built.”

Ifs Made Stills Pay Enemy Design Built Destruction Structure Eras Guarantees Stations Destroying Pay The Price

Author:Paul Baran

“For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.”

Wells Simple Pieces Built Structure Patterns Village One Piece Prominence Global Village

Author:Terry Riley

“There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.”

Way Whole Depends Bird Built Stones Structure Species Complicated Cells Developing Related Organisms Pyramids Mammals

Author:W. S. Merwin

“When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.”

Needs States Past Law Natural Morality Ego Ethics Built Structure Transcendent

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.”

Firsts Three Novel Four Built Structure Helpful

Author:Marcus Sakey

“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.”

Thinking Young Girl Loses Modern Example Built India Structure Exclusion American Society Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vandana Shiva

“What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'.”

People Needs I Can Christian Order Church Religious Perception Worship Built Structure Caught Good Times Openness Caught Up Having A Good Time Condemnation Worship God

Author:Robert Hood

“We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.”

Built Structure Establishment Freedom Of Religion Sturdy Rudders

Author:Diana L. Eck

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

People Thinking Realizing Cities Built Bigger Structure Olympics

Author:Gary Hustwit

“Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.”

Ifs Men Trying Looks Stills Important Whole Culture Technology Sitting Built Structure Gaps Bureaucracy Doing Nothing Science And Technology Sitting Around

Author:Peter Buffett

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

Character Nations Imagination Four Human Nature Built Independence Structure Individuality Individualism Initiative Cornerstones Character Education Personality Flaws

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

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

Science Universe Plans Built Structure Profound Intellect Symmetry

Author:Paul Valery

“There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Doe Father Belief Nations Religious Built Structure Founding Religious Belief

Author:Jesse Ventura

“It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Facts Seems Turns Behinds Broken Wall Built Okay Structure Sticks Glasses Sheer Jerry Tents Fortresses Broken Glass Moats

Author:Martin Amis

“I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.”

Whole Left Built Structure Heavy Mess Maintaining Brutes Glitter Dreary

Book:Deep Blue Goodbye

Source: Deep Blue Goodbye

“Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.”

People Ifs Problem Past Courses Walks Pay Serious Built England Structure Phones British Miles Telephones Tanks Posh Mailboxes

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.”

People Looks Different Time Example Evolution Built Horse Structure Starting Bones Classic Different Things Engineers Bats Scratches Textbooks Porpoises

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.”

People World Mind Firsts Art Today Imagination Vision Creativity Theory Perception Built Structure Carpe Diem Rockets Geometry Pyramids Cathedrals Carpe Thermodynamics

Author:Eugene S. Ferguson

“Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.”

“My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Purpose Religion Moral Opinion Atheism Built Structure Priests Artificial Revolt Infidel

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.”

Values House Results Moral Conditions Masters Expectations Ethics Built Tools Structure Response Oppression Altered Blueprints Living Conditions

Author:Audre Lorde

“In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”

Stories Generations Tears Built Mathematics Structure Add Math Mathematical Math And Science Mathematics And Science Math Education Numbers And Math

Author:Hermann Hankel