Top 637 Construct Quotes & Sayings

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.

To know the world, one must construct it

Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.

It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.

Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Great towers take time to construct.

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.

Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.

It's not rocket science. It's not super high technology to construct border barriers.

We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely literary constructs. You know, the young man in "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" - I probably got that right - is a literary construct, and enjoys being a literary construct. He has no life off stage, whereas the young men in "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" were as near to being real human beings as I could possibly get them.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

Religion is an irrational construct.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.

The gender thing doesn't exist; it's a social construct you don't have to fit into.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

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 it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.

God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or that others construct for you. Rather, He is interested in you, the you who suffers, the you who inflicts suffering on others, the you who hides, the you who has bad days (and good ones). And He meets you where you are.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.