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“If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.”

Ifs Want Writing Stories Happens Structure Boxes What You Want Wildness

Author:Colum McCann

“I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.”

Trying Effects Movement Structure Democratic Hopefully

Author:Dar Williams

“We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.”

Way Stills Culture Imagination Space Structure Scary Muscles Pushing Wilderness Surviving Frontiers Pioneers Pushing Back

Author:Jean Houston

“What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.”

“There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.”

“I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Important Stories Jobs Fiction Structure Tiny Why Not Epic Fiction Writers

Author:Colum McCann

“Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.”

“No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.”

Should Writing Self Differences Accepting Novel Military Claims Structure Feminist Arguing Nsa Dave Dickens Outspoken Military Power American Military

Author:Kamila Shamsie

“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.”

People War Whole Winning Black White Battle Structure Protest Black People Definite White Power

Author:Muhammad Ali

“When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them.One of the things that separated me from Messiaen was my desire to create works with a big structure, a large symphonic sweep. His forms are wonderful, glorious mosaics, but again, I prefer narrative.”

Bigs Form Desire Teacher Wonderful Structure Narrative Glorious Mosaics

Author:George Benjamin

“To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.”

Way Mind Ideas Dream Challenges Lines Memories Walks Particular Machines Structure Details Rely Copies

Author:Anne Waldman

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

I Can Reality Powerful Ought Structure Oneness Torture Peace War Interdependence Peace And Justice Interconnectedness Peace Justice Interconnection Web Of Life Interconnected World

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.”

Mind Looks Language Brain Influence Particular Behavior Scientist Structure Polyglots

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”

Ifs Should Two Important Accounts Structure Characteristics Maps Territory Usefulness

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.”

Ifs World Found Language Structure Objectives Maps Links Territory Linguistics Linguists

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“I don’t think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop’s ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.”

Thinking Social Responsibility Fans Mines Ultimate Structure Hip Hop Hips Hops Critique Social Structure

Author:Talib Kweli

“A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.”

Culture Structure Accomplishment Remarkable Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley Prowess

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.”

Whole Shapes Perception Structure Ideology Embedded Daily Experience

Author:Christopher Lasch

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”

Character Age Form Structure Birthday Peculiar Exaggerated 60th Birthday Pathology

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.”

Song Expression Structure Songwriting Intrigue

Author:Geddy Lee

“I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.”

Song Moved Structure Melody Texture

Author:Geddy Lee

“Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.”

People Long Courses Felt Class Theory England Management Structure Good Life Better Life Abusive Lower Class Downtrodden

Author:Damian Lewis

“I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.”

Wells Country Language Parent Structure Sentences Driven Bless Balanced Household English Language Syntax Custodians Finesse Sentence Structure

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.”

Believe Wells Happens Political Structure Scared Disagree Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.”

Humans May Spirit Social Natural Existence Conditions Pages Structure Desert Frightening Human Spirit Incentives Social Structure Kindliness

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.”

Culture Literature Color Structure Feminist

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.”

Beautiful Faces Structure Shoes Bones Mask Pumps Silhouettes Beautiful Face

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.”

Ifs Needs Looks Enough Helping Difficult Feet Style Structure Bones Variety Compare Skeletons Pumps

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.”

Mind Has Beens Soul Found Individual Behinds Structure Atoms

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.”

Leadership Leader Style Structure Intention Customers Corporate Employee Affected Overwhelming Engagement Marketplace Employee Engagement Organizational Organizational Structure Leadership Style

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.”

World Real Social Media Expression Structure Social Media Relate Real World Platforms Our Relationship Sophisticated Framing World Life

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!”

Humans Eye Wonderful Creatures Structure Phenomenon Jewels Brilliance Human Eyes

Book:Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

Source: Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”

Deals Destiny Structure Mood Plot Opera

Author:Marcel Marceau

“I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.”

Cutting Waste Structure Efficiency Improving Ruthless Streamlining

Author:Theresa May

“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.”

People Art Beautiful Form Mathematics Structure Patterns Math Application Amazing Things Most Amazing Beautiful Art

Author:Danica McKellar

“Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Certain Sides Dark Human Beings Numbers Forever Structure Species Greed Restriction Dark Side Dark Places

Author:Michael Moore

“I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.”

Knows School Film Felt Know How Grateful Structure Thesis So Grateful

Author:Michael Moore

“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.”

Ifs Thinking Father Support Broken Mom Areas Harder Structure Partners Construction Single Mom Being A Single Mom

Author:Bridget Moynahan

“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.”

States America Past United United States Taken Generations Program Structure Welfare Steady Expansion Over The Past Disintegration Welfare Programs Past Generations

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.”

Real Law Accepting Support Mass Structure Critical Firm Valleys Capitalist Engineers Estates Venture Silicon Silicon Valley Critical Mass Law Firms Venture Capitalists

Author:Elon Musk

“President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.”

Want Littles Persons Stuff President Information Structure Clinton Going Out President Clinton

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

Writing Book Ideas Style Essence Structure Sentimental Great Idea Hogwash

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.”

Feels Doe Structure Partnership Nato Albania

Author:Fatos Nano

“Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.”

Humans Done Government Guy Jesus Human Beings Planets Structure Infrastructure No Money Nazareth

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples’ yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.”

Cutting Building Structure Posts Los Angeles Yards Beam Cabins

Author:Nick Offerman

“And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.”

“I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.”

Ifs Trying Two Hours Five Week Minutes Six Eating Structure Pie Two Weeks Cardio Cardiovascular Exercise Eating A Lot

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.”

Dies Turns Grows Flower Roots Structure Plant Seeds Committees

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”

Facts Body Structure Statements Interpretation Theoretical Increasing Knowledge

Book:The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

Source: The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”

Views Theory Development Safe Structure Point Of View Corny Theoretical Relevance Relativity Factual

Book:THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

Source: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

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