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“I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.”

Writing Care Hate Lines Break Morning Four Computer Structure Don't Care Nine Lunch Unhealthy

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.”

People Heart Country Running Political Sides Interest Citizens Structure Boat Political Systems Best Interests At Heart

Author:Erykah Badu

“Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.”

World War Feelings Effort Failing Regret Resources Structure Defense Devoted Surveys Impart Armament Free World

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.”

People Humans Able Wanted Culture Human Beings Groups Months Six Jokes Research Structure Atmosphere Dirty Six Months Dirty Jokes

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Ends Sometimes Done Stories Process Depends Structure Linear

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.”

Reason Strong Changed Foundation Structure Never Change Anchors Cornerstones Strong Foundation

Author:John Wooden

“Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.”

Should May Process Teaching Periods Foundation Structure Serving Formal Lifelong

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.”

Kind Mean Ends Home Loss Levels Situation Security Evolution Crisis Structure Response Possession Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Threatening Breaking Down Breakdown Close Relationship

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.”

“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”

Thinking Firsts Desire Wish Humility Higher Foundation Structure Deeper Fabric Constructs Lofty Christian Humility

Author:Saint Augustine

“I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.”

Thinking Way Kind Has Beens Form Structure Males Sexuality Arcs

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.”

Thinking Way Hard Play Ability Structure Architecture

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.”

Found Emotional Color Structure Critical Architect Engineers

Author:John Hench

“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.”

Thinking Past Beautiful Fighting Evil Wonderful Example Structure Awful Satan Rome Bloody Coliseum

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.”

“I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.”

Mean Facts Minutes Structure Sentences Prose Controlled Minimalist Baroque Arcane Sentence Structure

Author:China Mieville

“You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.”

Humor Today Funny Hot Structure Bones Features Handsome Looking Good Refined Facial Hotter Too Deep Facial Features

Author:Kristen Schaal

“When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.”

Failing Fine Structure Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.”

Knows Needs Facts Structure Complicated Managers Employee

Author:Sam Altman

“The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.”

Knows Important Clear Important Things Structure

Author:Sam Altman

“What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.”

Want Trying Products Models Management Structure What You Want Business Models

Author:Sam Altman

“You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices... because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.”

Looks Able Existence Company Building Cost Models Fundamentals Structure Incumbents Business Models

Author:Aaron Levie

“Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.”

Needs Two Hands Keys Balance Involved Diversity Structure Complexes Resilience Factors Appropriate Efficient Diverse Efficiency Resilient Decrease Interconnected Complex Systems

Author:Bernard Lietaer

“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.”

“When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.”

Thinking Today Purpose Ability Organization Structure Critical Employee Productive Capability Morphology

Author:Dave Ulrich

“It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.”

Way Hard States Nations Capitalism Structure International Chains Simplification Supply Chain

Author:James C. Scott

“What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.”

Source: A complete Elia: The essays of Elia, together with The last essays of Elia

“When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.”

Ifs Mean Littles Doe Bits Simple Minutes Fit Bed Little Bit Structure Busy Asana Mediation Frantic

Author:Jayne Middlemiss

“If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody.”

Ifs Way Existence Structure If I Could Better Ways Way To Live

Author:Woody Allen

“Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.”

Stories Grows Voice Term Style Structure Life Experience Chapters Inherent

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.”

People Ifs Needs Stills Ideas Hard Happens Social Interest Support Hard Work Structure Social Change Constructive

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.”

Ideas Song Behinds Structure

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.”

May Has Beens Science Turns Imagination Break Century Objects Jokes Structure Familiar Inherent Mathematician Lacking 19th Century Naturalism Nomenclature

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.”

May Mean Enough Science Strong Influence Habit Weak Structure Possession Wide Yield Stable Phases Strong Enough Equilibrium Nomenclature Plasticity

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as strong as the structure to which it adheres. There is no way to destroy its power except by the separation of the parts, these parts renew themselves in other forms of life, but the structure is freed when its root is destroyed.”

Way Years Form Strong Roots Structure Karma Separation Destroyed Vines

Author:William Quan Judge

“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.”

“A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.”

Thinking Soul Body Century Design India Institutions Structure Planning Aspiration 21st Century Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.”

Looks Vision Economic India Innovation Structure West East Links Platforms

Author:Narendra Modi

“Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.”

Thinking Social Situation Economic Example Aim Structure Socialism Liberalism Distribution Economic Power Social Control Distribution Of Power

Author:Denis Healey

“Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.”

People Self Shows Eye Political Order Politics Plans Pride Demand Bills Structure Delight Envy Wit Desert Innocence His Eyes Good Times Scare Deceiving Detached Psychopath Grandiose

Author:Robert D. Hare

“For most of modern life, our strong talents and desires for group effort have been filtered through relatively rigid institutional structures because of the complexity of managing groups. We haven't had all the groups we've wanted, we've simply had the groups we could afford. The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation.”

Has Beens Wanted Political Desire Politics Strong Can Do Effort Groups Modern Talent Havens Limits Structure Operations Complexity Modern Life Group Effort

Author:Clay Shirky

“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.”

Firsts Humans Human Beings Ethics Structure Insight Doctrine Phrases Assumption Massive Engines Flash

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”

Ends Games Forget Too Much Modern Concerned Structure Chess Forget It Pawns Chess Game Checkmate Chess Pawns

Author:Nigel Short

“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Language Perfect Wonderful India Structure Greek Latin Hinduism Refined Antiquity Sanskrit

Author:William Jones

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”

Source: A John Hawkes symposium: design and debris

“In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

Ifs Different War Real Matter Past Effort Principles Poverty Groups Subjects Objects Ignorance Victory Bases Structure East Versions Meant To Be Asia Ruling Starvation East Asia

Author:Michael Moore

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”

Children Two Facts Wife Husband Structure Species Ill Tendencies Suits Isolation Belts Armor Husband And Wife Chastity Inappropriate Nucleus Aberration Corsets Suits Of Armor

Author:Christopher Ryan

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.”

Ifs Ideas Age Doubt Century Painting Keys Structure Old Age Heroic Locked Modernity Touchstones Cezanne

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

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

Doe Body Beauty Structure Relate Imaginative Analogies

Book:The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form

Source: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form

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