Construct Quotes

294 quotes by 269 authors

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that. — John F. Kennedy
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And… — George Orwell
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and… — Manning Marable
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who… — Paul J. Meyer
... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct. — Samuel Florman
The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. — Dave Barry
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same… — Milton Avery
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally… — Karl E. Weick
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men… — Warren Farrell
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that… — Dan Chaon
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue… — Piers Corbyn
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own… — Caitlin Flanagan
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — Ryan Adams
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. — Sherman Alexie
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living… — Arthur C. Clarke
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways. — Tayari Jones
There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do -… — John Maeda

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