Construct Quotes - page 8

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct. (Saul Williams)
If intellectual power is to be developed, we must somehow construct amplifiers for intelligence - devices that, supplied with a little intelligence, will emit a lot. View quote
W. Ross Ashby
There is little abstract art, today, and what there is is stammering and imperfect. It is an attempt to let the world speak for itself, instead of reporting the speech of mind excited by their picture of the world. The Greek, The Gothic, and the Renaissance artist set forth the world the way he saw it, felt it, and wished to have it; man wished above all to be nourished by art; he achieved his desire but sacrificed everything else to this one aim: to construct homunculus, to substitute knowledge for strength and skill for spirit. The ape aped his creator. He learned to put art itself to the ends of trade.. View quote
Franz Marc
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct. View quote
Bethany McLean
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. View quote
Boyd Holbrook
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful. View quote
Brenda Laurel
I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct. View quote
Damon Lindelof
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 we patch together from memory. View quote
Dan Chaon
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world. View quote
Diego Della Valle
And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance. View quote
Federica Montseny
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change. (Frank Rich)
I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name. View quote
Joseph D Mansueto
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up. View quote
Julian Baggini
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea. View quote
James Frain
If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist. View quote
Keith Barry
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull
We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it. View quote
Chris Adami
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan! View quote
Nancy Lublin
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case. View quote
Nathaniel Rich
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 meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity. View quote
Piers Corbyn
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. (Sheena Iyengar)
I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes. View quote
Scott Aukerman
I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential. View quote
Tim Scott
I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well. View quote
Tim Scott
I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing. View quote
Wanda Sykes