#structures

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#change #continuous #dynamic #entities #especially

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. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#built-in #component #emphasis #factor #gravity

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. ↗

— Jil Sander

#also #around #century #cloud #diverse

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. ↗

— Huston Smith

#agenda #creations #ethics #human #laws

Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures. ↗

— John Hutton

#must #never #primary #seen #set

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#egyptians #form #language #minimal #structures

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#been #brick #collapse #due #i

The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent. ↗

— Stella Atrium

#power-structures #self-reliant #womens-rights #womens-strength #business

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#break #creativity #experience #free #need

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is? ↗

— Daniel Prokop

#emotional-intelligence #humor #inspirational #leaving-neverland #management