Quotes of: Power-structure Keyword

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

Ted Nelson

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

Kip Thorne

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance s...

Lou Jiwei

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.

Caroline Lawrence

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

The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of presumed supremacy, but at power and its social and physical infrastructure. To find weak points within scriptures a...

Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization

Genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind...

Wyrd Sisters

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man. . . . This new definition of politi...

A Theology of Liberation

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.

The Deep Blue Good-By

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal ...

The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of lig...

Jean-Claude Van Damme