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“I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.”

People Kind I Can Book Remember Song Reading Found Dad Fit Moved Structure My Dad Stores All Kinds Relate Hated Songwriting Schedules

Author:Larkin Grimm

“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.”

“It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.”

Whole Used Interest Subjects Scene Structure Narration

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I prepared for a long time. I finally wrote two chapters and stopped. It was too complicated and too difficult to write. And who would've read it?”

Writing Long Two Use Games Difficult Plans Long Time Structure Prepared Complicated Chess Chapters

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.”

World Character Facts Stories Feelings Certain My Own Behinds Sun Emotional Truth Is Degrees Happenings Understood Structure Narrative Sun Also Rises Narrative Structure Tim O Brien

Author:Kevin Keck

“When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.”

Writing Problem Challenges Interesting Decided Mark Structure Dialogue Quotations Quotation Marks

Author:Catherine Brady

“Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.”

Should Mean States Reason Happens Natural Structure Embrace Extraordinary Chaos Contrary Unexpected No Reason

Author:Tohoru Masamune

“You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.”

Want Giving Trying Character Awareness Shapes Structure Screenplays Rigidity

Author:Paul Greengrass

“I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.”

Structure Chaos Satisfaction Combination Grids

Author:Michelle Stuart

“The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.”

Want Firsts Sometimes Feelings Song Challenges Emotion Behinds Structure Melody Heartfelt

Author:Avey Tare

“When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.”

“I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro or the macro level. Micro, you would ask: "What kind of financial or banking system do we want?" Macro, you would say: "What are the underlying problems in the structure of our economy?"”

Thinking Want Kind Problem Asks Levels Economy Structure Financial Banking Framework Banking System Macro Firefighting Conceptual Framework

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“The vision shared by both [French utopian] Charles Fourier and Robert Owen was for an entire town to fit into one structure. Owen's design for what he called a "parallelogram" was essentially to have a whole city in one building, laid out around a huge quadrangle. Fourier's scheme was to build a massive Versailles-like structure that he called a "phalanstery." In both cases they had these architectural dreams that we now recognize as pretty unappealing.”

Whole Dream Cities Vision Cases Design Building Huge Fit Towns Structure Massive Schemes Utopian Versailles Fourier Parallelogram

Author:Christine Jennings

“Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.”

Writing Made Earth Form Fate Philosophical Structure Streams Dry Life And Death Broads Gestures Rhetoric Peers Down To Earth Anecdotes

Author:John D'Agata

“The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.”

Ideas Intellectual Absolutes Structure Objectives Subjective

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.”

People Stories Use Seems Used Situation Week Structure Notes Desperate Pencils Fists Bothered Pads

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.”

Kind Real Whole Moments Games Process Building Structure

Author:Naomi Novik

“The difference between the big budget films I've done is the length of time. But in terms of the day-to-day, you're still going on to set, you're getting into character, and you're going and doing your job, so there's absolutely no difference. It's just the structure around it and the length of time. But in terms of budget and money, it doesn't really manifest itself.”

Stills Done Character Bigs Jobs Film Term Differences Structure Budgets Length Manifest Day To Day

Author:Andy Serkis

“Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else”

Should Mind Consciousness Concepts Concerned Structure Philosopher Various Scales Features Justification Large Scale

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.”

Ifs Kind Belief Process Term Views Reflection Structure Bounds Philosopher Arguing Arise Tendencies Limitation Mystical Acquisition Embedded

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“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

“Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.”

Facts Reality Space Study Events Identity Possibility Discipline Concepts Fundamentals Structure Property Substance Etc Composition Metaphysics Theoretical Resemblance

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.”

World Reality Space Middle Objects Ordinary Accounts Fundamentals Structure Assuming Rejects Flats Time And Space

Author:L.A. Paul

“I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.”

Whole Taxes Structure Whole Life Progressive Regulation Free Market Cleaners Progressive Tax

Author:Jamie Dimon

“If you're making things at home, there is no structure - no end, no beginning. So releasing stuff is a really nice way to have dividers in between what you do, and giving yourself a kick up the ass and saying, "OK, that's the end of that period."”

Ifs Way Giving Ends Home Stuff Nice Periods Structure Ass Kicks Really Nice Giving Yourself Saying Ok

Author:Aphex Twin

“There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.”

Dream Reality Past Language Identity Structure Series Narrative Theme Variation Bleeding Linear Lyrical Dissonance Dream Reality

Author:Deborah Smith

“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Looks Christian Life Is Jesus Names Worship Structure Supposed To Be Sacrificial Love

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.”

Persons Song Stuff Break Structure Guitar Appeals Songwriting Solo Hunters Jam Jerry Break Out Guitar Solos

Author:Colin Meloy

“Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.”

Thinking Important Play Might Sports Roles Teaching Benefits Structure Golf Teaching Others

Author:Rory McIlroy

“Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.”

Thinking Seems Song Missing Music Is Structure Assault Overcompensating

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“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

“Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren't working, or what kind of beat needs to come next.”

Needs Writing Kind Book Helping Three Next Deals Easier Beats Structure Mechanic

Author:Marcus Sakey

“The more spastic song structure I have, the more I hate it afterwards.”

Hate Song I Hate Structure

Author:Gylve Nagell

“Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.”

People Different Speak Language Structure Bones Different Languages

Author:Devendra Banhart

“Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.”

Feelings Angry Structure Load Primal Imposing Using Words Angry Feelings

Author:John Darnielle

“I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.”

Thinking Writing Song Easier Pages Structure Strict Meter

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.”

Age Found Memories Interesting Deals Attention Brain Adults Function Structure Sensory

Author:Philippa Perry

“There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.”

Different Differences Brain Female Structure Males

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself, sense into the story. In other words, you were not walking before you were born and you were not doing X and Y before you did something else first. So there's a sequencing of events that imposes a certain structure to the story.”

Firsts Stories Certain Born Our Lives Events Walking Aspect Structure Sequence Sequencing Sequence Of Events

Author:Antonio Damasio

“There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular level, because all of those structures are operating on an electrochemical basis and so the changes there are very important.”

Mean Important Levels Effects Bases Structure Really Mean Cellular

Author:Antonio Damasio

“If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the brain in structures that are actually different from the structures that lead to the emotion, what is going on in the organs when you're having the emotion.”

Ifs Needs Feels Different Emotion Brain Structure Organs

Author:Antonio Damasio

“So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.”

Thinking Important Process Emotion Brain Structure Collections Organs Stem Cerebral

Author:Antonio Damasio

“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.”

“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.”

Knows Character Stories Order Fiction Know How Poet Creating Structure Developing Narrative Fiction Writers Narrative Structure

Author:Edward Hirsch

“We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.”

Writing Firsts Littles Events Months Six Structure Series Six Months

Author:Seth Rogen

“The collateralized debt obligation, the CDO, is a structure which allows you to more or less continuously choose how much risk you want to take in a whole batch of securities. And the reason why they got us into so much trouble is that it's hard to figure out how much risk you really are taking.”

Want Hard Reason Whole Risk Trouble Security Figures Structure Debt Obligation Reason Why

Author:Robert F. Engle

“As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.”

Life Our Lives Structure Patterns Narrative

Book:The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience

Source: The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience

“Art's supposed to build logic structures.”

Art Logic Structure

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with society. That work has the most value. That is the function of the artist. That result.”

Thinking Should Firsts Art Artist Values Results Function Structure Engagement

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.”

People Needs Helping Process Can Do Answers Protect Models Majority Structure Critical Dynamics

Author:Tariq Ramadan

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