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If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.
Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe.
It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.
You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the institutional structure of production.
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.
With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.
My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.
The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.
We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
What is a fair way to structure our economy? To handle those who did not come to America legally? To distribute scarce public resources and benefits?
I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.
CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.
If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.
It's about working hard, resting when you need to, leading a healthy life, and having a support structure around you. These factors help you improve.
The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.
Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.
When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.
I've always been really attracted to playing with structure. To take the story of 'Fargo' and break it up in such a way that's it's not linear, per se.
The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.
When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.
Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.
We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.