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Quotes tagged ‘Structure’
I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.
I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings.
A life without structure is too risky. A life without structure is the road to collapse.
A life without structure is too risky. A life without structure is the road to collapse.
Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.
Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes, but in the organization of them. Not in symbiosis, but in synthesis.
Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination.
It's not what you do but what you don't do - the things you postpone, not the things you accomplish - that make you tired.
Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.
Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose…
An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.
The point of simple living, for me has got to be: A soft place to land. A wide margin of error. Room to breathe. Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day.
We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizin…
If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.