Structure Quotes - Page 8

• A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

  Alton Brown

  Water, Foam, Add

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• I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Benefits, Body, Facts

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

  Shirley Jones

  Home, Kids, Facts

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• Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Smart, Data, Simplicity

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.37, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

  Emily Watson

  Cameras, Actors, Rooms

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• There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

  Andrew Fastow

  Opportunity, People, Way

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• Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity. There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Different, Culture

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• The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, World, Requirements

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

  Dirk Benedict

  Office, Doe, Guarantees

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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.

  Susan Howe

  Children, Writing, Comforting

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• Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

  Susan Howe

  Order, Sentences

  Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  Hyman Minsky

  World, Ratios, Portfolios

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• Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Expression, Brain, Fundamentals

  Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.112, Guilford Publications

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• Our objective in taking these actions is to create a lean, agile structure, with streamlined and stable processes that will unleash DaimlerChrysler's full potential.

  Dieter Zetsche

  Full Potential, Action, Process

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• One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

  Katrina Kenison

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.

  Ziauddin Sardar

  Lying, Roots, Shapes

  Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr

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• Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

  Carol P. Christ

  Mind, Times Of Crisis, Defeat

  Carol P. Christ (1987). “Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess”, HarperOne

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• We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Should Have, Eyebrows, Tools

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ornaments, Realization, Matter

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Healing, Differences

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• Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

  Sara Parkin

  Future, Mean, People

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• Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Pyramids, Fire

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• "Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing a piano; it requires the thinking of chords of thoughts, not just isolated simplisms or abstracta; it demands the shaping or encompassing of morphological modes of intelligence that can comprehend gestalten, syndromes, historical and civilizational patterns in which it is not the particulars but their interactive significance (as an ensemble of actualities or principles) that is vital.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Piano

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