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#structure

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Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.


Grant-Lee Phillips


#being #life #more #much #musician

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.


Michael Polanyi


#certain #confirm #formulated #implied #language

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.


John Polkinghorne


#more #objective #quantum #sense #simply

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.


Chad Smith


#chili #everybody #fast #framework #hear

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.


George Woodcock


#any #bound #certain #come #depend

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?


Lynne Truss


#english-language #grammar #humor #lynne-truss #punctuation

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.


Bill Ayers


#i #ideas #ideology #say #straight

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.


Billie Joe Armstrong


#change #come #drop #go #going

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.


Rudolf Arnheim


#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.


Rudolf Arnheim


#art #derived #derives #man #manifestation






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