Construct Quotes
294 quotes by 269 authors
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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do…
— Walt Whitman
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The beauty of doing #‎ film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
— Michel Gondry
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct…
— Barbara Kruger
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Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
— Manuel Neuer
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The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
— Susan Griffin
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. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One…
— Milton Friedman
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The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.
— J. W. N. Sullivan
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I'm interested in machines that make you aware of the process of seeing and aware of what you do when you construct the world by…
— William Kentridge
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race -- scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it…
— Toni Morrison
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If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should…
— Lynne Cheney
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the…
— Nick Cave
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I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry…
— Pete Doherty
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All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
— David Attenborough
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I had never stopped thinking about the ideal car… All I had to do was construct a plant to build it.
— Ferruccio Lamborghini
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The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter…
— J. W. N. Sullivan
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Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to…
— Drayton Bird
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