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“Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking.”

Ifs Eye Process Goal Lines Sun Study Structure Lacking Arrested Beam Daylight Excluded Completeness True Knowledge Cones Apex

Author:Robert Dabney

“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.”

“All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.”

People Mean Problem Kids Hate Evil Stuff Teach Discipline Structure Bites

Author:Chris Rock

“What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.”

Needs Real Seeing Structure Real Life Surround Equipment Simplification

Book:Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays

“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.”

People Knows Way Want Needs Character Stories Together Actors Individual Lines Comedy Fronts Scene Cameras Structure Come Up Dry Hanging Out Geometry Weaving Funny People Super Funny

Author:Jeff Schaffer

“Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.”

Ifs Made Character Color Projects Music Is Structure Rhythm Opera Strokes Brushes Sculpture Brush Strokes

Author:Alex Abreu

“In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.”

Matter Age Young Order Born Feet Tomorrow Mouths Wake Up No Matter What Structure Bones Muscles Dancer Ballet Young Age Ballet Dancer

Author:Joan Chen

“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.”

Trying Looks Stories Bigs Opportunity Written Figures Fit Tough Advantage Structure Scripts Casts Eight I Realized Shooting Casting Revision Good Opportunity

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“There's nothing sexier than a girl who's like, 'I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I'm going to give you a new deal.' And then, over a period of years, she structures her sex acts in such a way that they save the economy.”

Knows Way Giving Years Girl Sex Deals Economy Periods Structure New Deal

Author:Eugene Mirman

“I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.”

Trying Language Stuff Audience Comedy Fronts Taught Jokes Structure Very Good Theatre Defined Snl

Author:Taran Killam

“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.”

Different Hands Brain Activity Research Tasks Structure Circuits Neuroplasticity Task At Hand

Author:Naveen Jain

“Thank God for the white male power structure.”

White Structure Males Thank God

Author:Daniel von Bargen

“There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.”

Kind Shows Seems Deals Teaching Subjects Students Raises Fundamentals Structure Accidents Lowest Chasing Ambulance

Author:Guido Calabresi

“I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.”

World Cities Identity Models Foundation Structure Scales Belonging Temporary Site Infrastructure Afar Installation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

“A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures which can be used to generate new pictures of the world.”

World Doe Jobs Used Artist Communication Elements Structure Code

Author:Victor Burgin

“To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.”

Reality Seems Order Next Lost Greater Television Function Structure Determine Newspapers Magazines Cinema Retreat Imperatives Accord Interpreting Signifying

Author:Douglas Crimp

“I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.”

Thinking Way Ideas Process Deals Photography Sacred Structure Framing

Book:Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

Source: Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism

“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”

“The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for them to get my exact intention. But if - through the construct of language, the way things are juxtaposed - there is some sort of disruption of the way you would normally go about reaching photographic images... if that is happening, that's fine.”

Ifs Thinking Way I Can Would Be Language Too Much Fine Happenings Asking Structure Intention Reaching Working It Viewers Constructs Disruption Asking Too Much

Author:Lorna Simpson

“Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.”

People World Play Reality Roles Concepts Structure Everyday Relate Perceive Defining

Book:Metaphors We Live By

Source: Metaphors We Live By

“No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.”

Social Community Groups Personality Healthy Structure Dependent Social Groups

Author:Rollo May

“To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.”

Theory Structure Surprise Assumption

Author:Albert Mohler

“The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.”

Mean Together Company Principles Groups Projects Structure Division Composition

Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.”

Giving Deals Quality Steps Economy Structure Concrete Innovative

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.”

Writing Believe Art Jobs Courses Term Acting Novel Painting Structure Patterns Novel Writing

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Real Speak Sound Realizing Structure Rhythm Relax Swimming Riding Verses Bike If You Believe Real You

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. . . The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through the anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.”

Order Individual Goal Anxiety Structure Misery Spite Submit Formation Degradation Suppression Inhibitions

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“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

“They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.”

Years Two Use Today Three Quality Company Records Groups Needed Innovation Structure Assuming Albums Strings Three Years Orchestra Promotion Columbia

Author:Ramsey Lewis

“We always have a basic structure for a piece of music, but we encourage the musicians to elaborate on whatever they feel at that particular moment. There's a definite conversation happening on stage. I think it is very important for us as creative musicians, to instantaneously describe any energy that is visible at that time.”

Thinking Feels Important Moments Energy Creative Pieces Stage Particular Conversation Musician Happenings Structure Visible Definite

Author:Lisa Gerrard

“There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.”

Knows World Christian Form Jesus Speak Language Christ Practice Air Messages Jesus Christ Tradition Structure Hunger Fixed Something New Strict Framework Christian Faith Dogmatic

Author:Philip Clayton

“As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.”

Needs Humans War Enough Action Individual Social Human Beings Ability Structure Chaos Anarchy Torn Our Actions Avoided Individual Freedom Social Structure

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.”

Thinking Kind Social Boys Nice Structure Raised Conservative Alternatives Supposed To Be Camps Household Staff Weirdo Social Structure

Author:Jay Michaelson

“We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap.”

Remember Political Results Cases Conscious Foundation Structure Rap Uncomfortable Gangsta Gangsta Rap Conscious Rap

Author:Bocafloja

“I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.”

Thinking Way Stills Strong Church Results Happened Direct Structure Ancient Legacy Britain Conquest Monarchy County Hereditary Norman Conquest

Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.”

“The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.”

“We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost.”

Mean Stills Havens Messages Structure Ancient Iraq Empires Copies Senators Emperor Roman Empire Terminology

Author:Immortal Technique

“The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.”

“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.”

“That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.”

Ideas Exciting Structure Males

Author:Liz Phair

“Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.”

Theory Structure Mathematical Relativity Mills Yang General Relativity

Author:Chen-Ning Yang

“Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.”

Source: The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

“No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.”

Behavior Responsible Structure Architect

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.”

Made Social Deals Numbers Fields Essentials Models Structure Property Characteristics Complexity Biology Large Numbers Variables Social Science Physical Science

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.”

Knows Way Order Growth Attitude Conditions Function Structure Plant Gardener

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.”

Men Language Grows Growth Modern Structure Architecture Meaningful Circles Traditional Related Consistent Customs Village Find Me Modern Man Implied

Book:Tradition and Revolution

Source: Tradition and Revolution

“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.”

Way Understanding Subjects Structure Related Permit Grasping

Book:The Process of Education, Revised Edition

Source: The Process of Education, Revised Edition

“One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.”

People Reason Simple Brain Teach Identity Aspect Structure Narrative Unlikely Worldview Cognitive Cognitive Science

Book:The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

Source: The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

“It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.”

World Felt Comedy Humour Goodness Structure British Around The World Asian Gracious British Comedy

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

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