Structure Quotes - Page 36

• I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Player, Thinking, Hands

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings. ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Light

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• This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Periods

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• Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dna, Together

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• The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Body

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• The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Growth, Body

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• The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Evolution, Awareness

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• The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Brain, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Next, Awareness

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• Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Stupid, Aunt

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Taken, People, Together

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• Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.

  Bob Proctor

  Energy, Body, Vibrations

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• Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Book, Men

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• Structure is translation software for your imagination.

  James Scott Bell

  Imagination, Software, Translations

  James Scott Bell (2016). “Just Write: Creating Unforgettable Fiction and a Rewarding Writing Life”, p.127, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

  Victor Papanek

  Men, Design, Creative

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• Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.

  Edward Mazria

  Design, Creative, Challenges

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• Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live.

  Brad Feld

  Past, Years, Gone

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• Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Artist, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

  Peter Greenaway

  Ideas, Plot, Cinema

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• Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

  Jack Ohman

  Ideas, Terrorism, Strikes

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• What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.

  William B. Hurlbut

  Reflection, Balance, Important

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• In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Important, Pieces

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