Structures Quotations

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.

I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals.

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.

We bless the organized church structures and their meetings. But if there are 10,000 others that meet outside of these ecclesiastical structures, that's wonderful, too. The kingdom of God moves forward in lots and lots of ways.

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most importantly what satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world.

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the rhythm, the music and so-on - these things obviously evolved.

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most beautiful, and the most engineered. You know what I mean? We like the balance you can get in there.

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.

It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it's lived has a far more complex shape.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

New York City is one of the most walking cities in the world. We tried to design some structures that will enhance that simple act of walking.

My housing stock is just about maxed out. There are a couple of homes that are very, very expensive, in the $200,000 to $300,000-plus range, with the balance being very old structures that need complete renovation.

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.

One passed through the Monterey community of Rankin County. You saw what that did. Weak structures will be blown down.

One of our immediate goals will be to characterize each of these controlling structures in detail. This will allow the higher grades on these structures to be modeled separately with a significantly higher cut-off, leading to an increased grade overall and more contained ounces in the resource block.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.

If we can move our project forward with the help of the vibrant Twin Cities construction industry, there's nothing I'd like more than to see our ready-to assemble structures on a barge heading down the Mississippi to New Orleans to help address that region's ongoing housing crisis.

If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We have processes in our hands that allow us to create structures at all scales that at one point we couldn't even have dreamed of.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

She doesn't want to see one single building demolished that doesn't need to be, ... We will be very soon developing a very comprehensive program dealing with housing needs and what to do with structures of historic significance.

Many of our retail competitors have much lower cost structures that allow them to run different business models that are valued by both employees and customers alike,

Side airbags can protect the head, but if the vehicle structure doesn't hold up well then serious injuries to other body regions still can occur, ... With better structures along with the side airbags, the performances of these vehicles would improve.

Seventy percent of the town has suffered catastrophic damage, but all the structures were impacted one way or another. Our goal is to get building materials to the town so they can begin to rebuild.

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

There are structures after structures that survived Camille with minor damage that are not there any more.

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

If I was an office developer, I'd build a tower right now. I think you'll see office structures announced soon.

I am sure the key role in the implementation of our goals will go to our business structures and their establishments in the face of commerce and trade chambers. It is important that we can do it now jointly using the mechanisms and potential of the Russian-Arab business council, which is actively supported by the Russian Foreign Ministry,

Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on them, which often hinder rather than help our services to learners.

Freddie Mac's new LIHTC Mod Rehab execution has several features that are important to our lender customers, including a less costly and more efficient execution with no interim financing. Freddie Mac is focused on delivering creative, flexible financing structures that meet our customer's business needs, and to ensure that more properties for low-moderate income individuals get the financing they need.

From a law enforcement perspective, those portals are the kind of enabling structures that need to be strategically taken out to make the business more difficult. These are people who can't stand the sunshine of public attention, and it is one of the more positive outcomes of Justin going public.

I am concerned that we keep lines of communication open, that we don't hurry to new structures, but that of course we have to ask the question, 'Do we have the structures to serve us properly', and that will take time work out,

If it was a Category 4 barreling down here, I would get out if I had a chance. The structures just can't take that kind of wind. We're cautiously watching.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

Certainly, I'd think Beauvoir would be eligible and a priority. Thousands of historic structures were damaged by last year's hurricanes. These funds are important to ensure the full economic and cultural recovery of the Coast.

But it's not just the physical damage. All of their social structures were destroyed overnight.

Having two different structures of relationships creates a stigma the New Jersey constitution does not allow.

We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the presidency and we have caused our people to zero in on what is at State House.

I allowed them to go ahead and put roof structures in place.

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

There are often no other structures - like tall buildings - to put cell sites on.

His reach within both the party mechanism and the policy structures of the government is so deep that I believe that it is possible to find somebody who would provide the technical and intellectual support that Libby did, even if he doesn't have the same personal relationship that he had with Libby. That's very hard to duplicate.

Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

We took nineteen of the highest-resolution structures available -- the best data we could get our hands on. We then went through each of those structures one residue at a time, looking for evidence of some sort of motion that extended beyond just a side chain spinning.

Just one day after arrival, we are already experiencing the hot, dynamic environment of Venus. We will see much more detail at an unprecedented level as we get over 100 times better resolution as we get closer to Venus, and we expect to see these spiral structures evolve very quickly.

My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.

Regardless of who's doing a controlled burn, we still have the responsibility to plan for what would be a concerned hazardous area. We have to put in a structures plan and an evacuation plan.

Part of this is political posturing. But what companies are realizing is that arrival of the euro is making German corporate costs structures increasingly uncompetitive.

I think that in the long-term care market all companies are fair game for mergers at this point. All of these companies are trying to get their cost structures down to cope with the changes taking place in Medicare.

It is important to do no harm. The worst thing Congress could do now would be to repeat the mistakes of the past by overriding the structures of the free marketplace (by) imposing new controls, allocation schemes, new taxes on industry or other obstacles.

I think the message here is, pick your targets wisely, and do not pick on managements or boards unless they are demonstrably inept and the management structures are demonstrably bloated and ineffective. I don't think that's a conclusion you draw from the Time Warner experience.

Our ultimate goal is to clear the site with as little cost as possible. There are old timbers and wood structures that can be salvaged, and any metals are marketable for scrap.

Our vein structures are completely different, especially when you look at the palm. In a way, it's like looking at a bar code. We convert your veins to a bar code.

Our study found that the majority of income trusts operate in some of the most capital intensive industries within Canada's economy. There is no evidence to suggest that the adoption of trust structures has had, or for that matter will have, any negative effect on capital investment or Canada's economy.

Our birds are all sheltered in indoor structures that are climate-controlled.

I think if we return to the values that we talked about on (Independence) Square, but not the adventurism that structures of power had begun to carry out, I will extend my hand to anyone,

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror, ... The sight of planes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

We are in the process of rebuilding structures damaged by Hurricane Dennis.

We anticipated this money, and we're well into the process. In the next 30 to 60 days, we should start seeing some of these structures coming down.

We have already pushed out our boundaries, and now it is not just about defending them, but expanding them. Today, we have to have the right structures in place to respond in the most professional way to the challenges of elite pro cycling. In Mario, I have a partner, who has the right qualities and in whom I have 100 percent trust.

That whole sector got hit pretty hard and a lot of deal structures couldn't be effectively assembled.

While we know a lot about how teeth and facial structures changed over time, it was thought that once our ancestors became bipedal, there were few, if any, changes in the ankle associated with walking on two legs. Now we know there were slightly different ways to be bipedal.

We can use diversion structures to redirect sediment (coming down the river) that is now going off the continental shelf.

We have a given site, and we have to ascertain what disturbances will affect the structures on that site as a result of an earthquake.

We have agreed to give orders to respective structures to intensify t he talks on deliveries and transit of Russia's gas to Ukraine,

We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.

We encourage people to take action as soon as they can safely return to their property. The longer mold has access to warmth, moisture and food, the more it will grow and spread, ... Getting structures cleaned up, dried out and coated can help minimize mold's impact and prevent it from returning.

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

We have reports from the fire chief that an unknown number of structures has caught on fire. The town is pretty well evacuated.

The reality in today's world is that we can't build it from the ground up, so we'll have to adapt existing structures into a facility like this and do it bit by bit.

There are easily storm scenarios in New York that run to tens of billions of dollars. And structures on Long Island aren't as well built as new construction in Florida.

We're actually protecting structures in a variety of areas, some of them quite a ways from highways. Our primary focus is firefighter and public safety, and then the protection of private property and structures.

We design the look of all of our structures not only with backyard appeal in mind but also with absolute safety in mind.

We determined early on in our site evaluations that most of the structures weren't usable.