Structure Quotes

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“The world economy is the greatest of all structures.”

“Unlike other forms of capital, social capital inheres in the structure of relations between actors and among actors.”

“The events, procedures, and results that constitute the sciences have no common structure.”

“Composition is a way of organizing sound, but it's also a way of organizing your life.”

“I'm always thinking about the last page of the issue as I'm writing the first.”

“The problem is to find a form that accommodates the mess.”

“The military is not a democracy. It is a benign dictatorship.”

“The final abstract expression of every art is number.”

“Structure is the key to understanding function.”

“A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”

“A song is a short story. It has a beginning, a middle and an end.”

“What I try to do is to write a piece of music that is a unity from beginning to end.”

“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”

“The end of a movie is very important. It's the last thing you see.”

“The longue durée is a structure which lies beneath the surface of the past, a framework which has a powerful and often secret influence on the course of events.”

“Structures are the realities which endure, which are transmitted over long periods of time and which are slow to change.”

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“All stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and you should tell them in that order.”

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”