Construction Quotes - Page 2

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

The place was packed as we flooded in, all the patrons freezing at the sight of an armed sheriff, two deputies, an Indian, and a construction worker; we probably looked like the Village People.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.