Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

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
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
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
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
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
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life — David Attenborough
I had never stopped thinking about the ideal carâ€¦ All I had to do was construct a plant to build it. — Ferruccio Lamborghini
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get… — Kristin Hersh
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
Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct.Â Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to… — Drayton Bird
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
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment. — Northrop Frye
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

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