Structure Quotes

• Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

  Henry Cloud

  Essentials, Boundaries, Building

  Source: tonymorganlive.com

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• The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mind, Responsible, Form

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• 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.

  Jerome Bruner

  Understanding, Way, Permit

  Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.7, Harvard University Press

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• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Journey, Reality

  "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity'". Life magazine, p. 64, May 02, 1955.

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• Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

  Peter Drucker

  Strategy, Missions

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• All good art is abstract in its structure.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Abstract, Art Is

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• I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Thinking, Scheduling

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• Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

  Norman Mailer

  Insanity, Foundation, Mental Illness

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• Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Soul, Divine

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Architecture

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Wish

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Reality, Web Of Life

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

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• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Doe, Different

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• To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Cameras, Position

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 27, 2011

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• ‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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• Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

  Sigmund Freud

  Broken, Crystals

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• Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.

  John von Neumann

  Technology, Organization, Energy

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• Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Science, Simple

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.101

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• It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

  Jesse Robredo

  Order, Organization, Politician

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Dust, Civilization

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.167, Anchor

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• Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

  Talcott Parsons

  Health, Science, Support

  1951 The Social System, ch.8.

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