Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to… — Margaret Mead
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on… — Jerome Bruner
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax — Thomas Paine
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology,… — Joy Adamson
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the… — Neil Gaiman
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use… — Albert Ellis
Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them! — Richard Koch
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together. — John Maeda
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
The beauty of doing #â€Ž film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. — Michel Gondry
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
Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man. — Manuel Neuer
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
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
. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One… — Milton Friedman
Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal… — Philippe Starck
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan
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
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
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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