Construct Quotes

294 quotes by 269 authors

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self. — Sigmund Freud
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at… — Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. — Eoin Colfer
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are… — Steve Martin
Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of… — Wole Soyinka
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough… — David Foster Wallace
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an… — Henry David Thoreau
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape. — Jean-Paul Sartre
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that… — Terry Pratchett
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from… — Tim Wise
Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just… — Steve Jobs
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I donâ€™t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived… — Fernando Pessoa
You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw… — Karen Marie Moning
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until whatâ€™s left is all construct, all… — Holly Black

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