“I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.” WantFirstsWantedValuesLeaderMilitaryStructureLooking GoodArbitraryGangBabe Author:Peter Mullan
“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.” YearsFirstsMadeStillsWholeGovernmentLawOrderDecisionWrittenChangedQuietStructureNewspapersDecision MakingRegimesNaziBureaucracyDecreeAnnouncementsImplementing Author:Raul Hilberg
“The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.” FirstsAgeAnimalHigherMountainStructureInventionKingdomsCellsOrgansWormsTissuesAnimal KingdomCellular Author:John M. Tyler
“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsSometimesCertainTeacherChildhoodThis WorldPersonalityDegreesEnlightenmentDifficultyStructureLifetimeEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.” FirstsCountryUseTodayWomenPossibilityEnlightenmentFirst TimeStructureManipulation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first and then I get really obsessed with arranging, adding, and subtracting parts. The last step of the process, for me, is finding words that fit into that structure and figuring out exactly what I want to talk about.” WantFirstsLastsProcessStepsFitFindingsPercentStructureCome UpObsessedMelodyChordsGet RealArranging Author:Mikal Cronin
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.” YearsFirstsLawChurchModernHundredYears AgoOrganizationCatholicStructureWestEightCatholic ChurchCanon Author:Peter Drucker
“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.” YearsFirstsMadeEuropeBuiltFunctionManagementInstitutionsStructureFinancialMade ItGermanyContinentalFinancial InstitutionsTop Management Author:Peter Drucker